Sentence examples for told set from inspiring English sources

"It was a condition, we were told, set by the White House".

But midway through, it turns into "The Greatest Story Ever Told" set in urban Montreal.

And when we got 20 to 50 kilometers inside of Cambodia we were told set up an ambush position.

Inventor Tim Jenison, we're told, set out to discover how the 17th-century artist used optics, hoping to prove his theory by painting his own version of Vermeer's The Music Lesson.

I don't imagine the pieces all told set him back more than $75.

A police request to search the bureau would, she was told, "set a very dangerous precedent" and would invite retaliation in Tripoli.

All of that was fine, she had been told, setting the stage for a death that she later said had left her "on the edge of euphoria".

The bass-baritone Daniel Mobbs, playing Tell, set the bar high throughout the evening, his combination of potency and assurance unassailable.

The following month, the ship of the line Guillaume Tell set sail from Valletta to Toulon, laden with soldiers, but this too was intercepted and in a hard-fought battle was forced to surrender to a larger British squadron.

Genius, passion, hard work, and a little bit of luck – that's what we are told sets Nobel prize recipients apart from us mere mortals.

Spinoza's agreement with the Cartesian laws of nature and collision provides a telling set of further examples.