Sentence examples for tells not from inspiring English sources

"The Arrival" tells not an immigrant's story, but the immigrant's story.

It tells not one long story but nine shortish tales, each about a different man.

He told the committee: "It feels like your heart breaks" when your commander tells not to report the abuse.

His latest film tells not just the story of young people struggling in a world of limited opportunities but also of their families trying to hold relationships together.

The transcript does not match the story Califano tells — not unless one is deaf, as he and his former boss may well have been, to what King was actually saying.

On opening night at the Palladium, the audience greeted those first moments with a roaring cheer, a salute to the love-story that "A Chorus Line" tells — not between its characters, but between them and showbiz.

I was told, not asked.

We're told, not engaged.

I was told not to follow.

They were told not to worry.

And they were told not to witness.