Sentence examples for at told from inspiring English sources

He would get shouted at, told to fetch impossible things, fix ludicrous arrangements.

"They were coerced, yelled at, told they failed a polygraph when they didn't — and, most important, threatened with the death penalty when they didn't confess," he said.

There are the aggravations at airport security, where you are routinely barked at, told to raise your hands like some cornered cowboy movie desperado.

"They were coerced, yelled at, told they failed a polygraph when they didn't—and, most important, threatened with the death penalty when they didn't confess," he said.

Make those characters more stylized, more broadly comic, and the viewer is let off the hook: it's O.K. to feel contempt for a contempt magnet, a selfish person who is just asking for it asking to be yelled at, told to get thicker skin, to grow up, to man up, to shut up.

I consider it harassment when I'm whistled at, told to smile, or offered sexually suggestive comments while walking down the street.

Moleskine is very good at telling stories.

"I'm very bad at telling jokes.

All are excellent at telling fibs.

Americans, she added, "are good at telling dreams; we're good at telling reality".

It's very good at telling the time.