Sentence examples for tell time from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'tell time' is not correct or usable in written English.
The phrase 'tell the time' is the phrase that is used in written English, and it means to state what time it is. For example: "Can you tell the time? I need to know what time it is."

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Tell time".

How to tell time.

"I can't even tell time yet".

–How does the device tell time?

You can tell time, can't you? . . .

Few people actually need a watch to tell time anymore.

What are we really measuring when we tell time?

Most teenagers now use their cellphones to tell time.

We produce life, after all; we can tell time.

And, almost as an afterthought, they tell time.

But he did not know how to tell time by a ship's clock.

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