Sentence examples for as telltale from inspiring English sources

The mother kept reappearing, at one moment flapping her spatulate tail outside the water in a move known as lobtailing, at another flashing her parabolic head, with its bony white growths that are said to be as telltale as fingerprints.

In official Indian parlance such proof is grimly referred to as "telltale signs".

The "X" marks and time notations were seen as telltale signs of where and at what time he had dropped off classified information.

The Roman empire maintained standing armies to protect its frontiers, but the Huns, the Goths and the Vandals live on in almost all of us, as telltale sequences of DNA that connect Europeans from Bucharest to Bradford, and far beyond.

But victims continue to be missed as telltale signs are overlooked "from the frontline of children's services to the corridors of Whitehall," said Anne Marie Carrie, the charity's new chief executive.

But clinical data nevertheless show that women are more likely to have shortness of breath and heartburn in the lower chest as telltale signs of heart disease.

For instance, he said, the accumulation of tau proteins, which become toxic to the brain, is often seen as the telltale sign of C.T.E., but this focus might overlook other symptoms, such as chronic inflammation, the buildup of amyloid proteins, and the degeneration of white matter.

Then there were the ubiquitous "floatables": leaves, wrappers, a plastic bottle, a condom, the last of which Mr. Lipscomb identified as a telltale sign of sewage.

As the telltale wrapping popped up across the country, Wardrop and his colleagues marveled at the sheer expanse of Sinaloa's market.

But nothing on the hangar floor at the Kennedy Space Center, where the parts are being laid out, has been identified as a telltale part.

In their Upper West Side apartment last summer, they watched as the telltale lines on her pregnancy tests got bluer and bluer.