Sentence examples for private tells from inspiring English sources

Certainly, there are examples where what a person does in private tells us something worth knowing about what he does in public.

Later, Chris, fearing the Armitages' black maid has unplugged his cell phone out of animus for his dating Rose ("It's a thing," he says to his seemingly uncomprehending girlfriend in private), tells the maid that he gets nervous when there are only white people around.

An Indiana private told his parents that "if emancipation is to be the policy of this war … I do not care how quick the country goes to pot".

The authorities at Fort Benning first learned about the improper briefings early last year; a young private told them when he came to them for help in canceling his policy.

The private told F.B.I. officials that he planned to assemble two bombs in the hotel room "using gunpowder and shrapnel packed into pressure cookers to detonate inside" the restaurant, according to the federal complaint.

Still coming to terms with his diagnosis, Ferguson chose to keep it private, telling few people outside of his close friends and family.

When Manning was in her early teens and still identified to many as male, the future Army private told one companion she was gay.

In private, tell your assistant the secret to the game.

He also said he had witnessed Sergeant Holcomb calling Private Chen Dragon Lady, a racist nickname that Private Chen told Private Berhe he "hated".

Private Batista tells them stories about his experience.

Her private secretary tells her she must attend a ceremony to launch a nuclear submarine.