Sentence examples for as a tell from inspiring English sources

His listening tour — billed by him as a "Tell It Like It Is" tour — was nothing if not blunt.

Bank of America should come under a great deal of scrutiny as a tell on the still shaky financial sector.

There is a growing body of evidence that pathogen Avr genes code for effectors that whilst enabling host colonization act as a tell tale of pathogen presence and activate plant defence when recognised by the matching R genes.

Indeed, it has been shown that some liars tend to increase the level of eye contact in response to the fact that investigators have often considered eye contact as a tell.[4] Clearly, only use eye contact aversion as one indicator in a general context of increasing distress when being asked difficult questions.[4].

Sean Quinn, one of the site's writers, identifies this as a "tell"—a poker term referring to a player's unconscious behaviour that gives a clue into what he's doing.

I want to ask her about her own memories of the dress, but she starts to uncross and recross her legs, an impatient gesture I have identified as a "tell" for not-interested-let's-move-on, and then she starts firing questions at me instead; how old am I? Do I have children?

But telling you that is as useless as telling a violinist to play in tune and more beautifully.

But the Friern Barnet story stands as a telling microcosm of library activism.

Instead, it stands as a telling symbol of what is wrong generally with big-time college sports.

The case has been viewed by some as a telling clash of two ideologies: Islam versus Italian xenophobia.

Indeed, in what Iranians saw as a telling gesture, Mr. Ahmadinejad kissed the hand of Ayatollah Khamenei after he was elected.