Sentence examples for tells to keep from inspiring English sources

A young scientist working night and day on an experiment only to find it a failure; his nagging impatient wife whom he finally tells to keep quiet.

By William Maxwell The New Yorker, December 18 , 1937P. 22 A young scientist working night and day on an experiment only to find it a failure; his nagging impatient wife whom he finally tells to keep quiet.

"But we are told to keep consuming.

Staff were told to keep all of this to themselves".

Everyone tells him not to tell, to keep it to himself.

To this end, we were told to keep a diary.

Already, producers have been told to keep costs down.

We'd been told to keep Dexter away from peanuts.

"We were told to keep our mouths shut," she said.

They've been told to keep their mouths shut.

Ms. Langbehn says she was repeatedly told to keep waiting.