Sentence examples for tell less from inspiring English sources

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Home runs allowed, lefty-righty breakdowns and other data tell less about a pitcher's future.

I want to tell less, less, less information, and give somehow more, more space for interpretation".

The first issue is headlined: "New Jersey Occupancy Rates Tell Less Than Half the Story".

In an interview with the Paris Review, in 2000, Barnes remarked that "I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction….

The poems were feeble, and the stories that followed his two groundbreaking works tended to tell, less well, the same tale of Everyman against the system.

With this fragment of a sentence, Fitzgerald gives Hemingway the familiar writing-class advice — show, don't tell; less is more; and what is left out can sometimes be more meaningful than what is included.

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Sometimes telling less reveals more.

"Now we're being told less is more".

And some stories are better told less literally than this.

Indeed, all told, less than $2 million was involved.

Alice Mann has told less than a handful of people that she's had her eggs frozen.

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