Sentence examples for be tells from inspiring English sources

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be tells

verb

To count, reckon, or enumerate.

  • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.

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The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest.

McGowan, suddenly realising just how tough this is going to be, tells me to forget the three-page routine and concentrate on a couple of sentences.

But when your customer service person, nice as she may be, tells a future passenger "not to make a big deal of this because there's a lot of moving parts," that's somewhat insulting.

I was hoping my family would learn more about me through my book -- emotionally abused older brother comes to terms with lifetime of mental abuse, spends years on a shrink's couch, overcomes fears, let's go of anger, becomes who he wants to be, tells funny stories about zombies and wrestlers, etc.

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Must be told".

Jokes will be told.

This might be telling.

Investors would be told.

I had to be told.

The story must be told".

These truths must be told.

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