Sentence examples for the tell from inspiring English sources

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the tell

verb

To count, reckon, or enumerate.

  • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.

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There is always the tell.

But here the bread is the tell.

Some 100 looters were visible, many digging on the tell.

("Grass in the hair is the tell," I was told).

"The 'Tell Sid' campaign sticks in people's minds.

"No, not really, to the tell ya the truth," she shrugs.

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Then there's the tell-tale taco.

Such grandiose asides are the tell-tale.

But the tell-all case may be Houston.

Daniel Horowitz illustrates Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Still, there was often the tell-tale white circle.

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