Sentence examples for the tells from inspiring English sources
verb
To count, reckon, or enumerate.
- All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
Where my emoji keyboard gave me an almost virtuosic mastery of my emotions as presented to others, our faces remain blunt instruments: the flinches, the microexpressions, the tells.
And over the next few years the U.S. intelligence community began to "read the tells" that China had access to sensitive traffic.
In some areas, the tells of ancient towns remain above the alluvium and allow a reconstruction of the ancient canal patterns.
The tells about the training of a 13-year-old gelding she calls Star Blossom who turned into a maniac when anyone mounted him.
Whereas geophysical surveys provide a horizontal picture of how the sites expanded over space, microstratigraphic studies provide a vertical perspective of the social processes that built the tells over time.
Results of the digital terrain analyses further suggest that the ridges and mounds in the west and south-west of the study area are remains of the Pleistocene deposits and that the tells in the foreland - like Bubastis - witness the erosion history.
The telling overwrote the experience.
There is always the tell.
He recovered from the telling.
"Now" was the telling word.
The art was all in the telling.
