Below you will find example sentences with "tell stories". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Tell Stories in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: tell
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "tell stories" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as able to tell stories and who, able to tell stories with threat, able, story and year stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with instagram stories, short stories and fiction stories, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with tell stories
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Come hug each other and tell stories about our Mom. (10 words)
I can not tell you how grateful I am to tell stories to you guys. (15 words)
She shared: "I can feel spirits emotions, and see images that tell stories of the dead. (16 words)
Sir Ridley Scott, who as a TV advertising man learned how to tell stories in less than a minute (his famous 1973 Hovis commercial, featuring a delivery boy on a bike, lasted 47 seconds), now cannot tell a story in less than two and a half hours. (47 words)
All the documentaries featured in the Made in Ukraine series — 10 in total — tell stories of a year at war and are available to watch online in Canada until May 9. (The 'Made in' program at Hot Docs focuses on a different country each year. (45 words)
All Ms. Vasquez did was tell stories of a Lumad girl, her indigenous community’s situation, her positionality as a student of an elite school and raised by a middle-class family and her insights as she went on fieldwork. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
But the only way to solve this is to genuinely diversify who is able to tell stories and who is letting them tell stories.
Sir Ridley Scott, who as a TV advertising man learned how to tell stories in less than a minute (his famous 1973 Hovis commercial, featuring a delivery boy on a bike, lasted 47 seconds), now cannot tell a story in less than two and a half hours.
I can not tell you how grateful I am to tell stories to you guys.
The date begins at a theater, where Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, they tell the ladies that today is all about firsts and they both tell stories about some of theirs.
All Ms. Vasquez did was tell stories of a Lumad girl, her indigenous community’s situation, her positionality as a student of an elite school and raised by a middle-class family and her insights as she went on fieldwork.
All the documentaries featured in the Made in Ukraine series — 10 in total — tell stories of a year at war and are available to watch online in Canada until May 9. (The 'Made in' program at Hot Docs focuses on a different country each year.
A lot of times we tell stories in the form of novels and films, but we seldom meet the storytellers.
An interesting development in Callaghan’s career has been in his colossal growth in popularity for using person on the street journalism as a medium to tell stories.
As a locally-renowned poet and actress, Obisie-Orlu uses her art to tell stories of migration, belonging and empowerment.
As well as showcasing exhibitions, the site will harness immersive technology like virtual reality to tell stories that engage and entertain visitors.
Besides having a hand in multiple businesses, he’s also appeared on Ben Roethlisberger’s to tell stories about his playing days.
Come hug each other and tell stories about our Mom.
Cyber teams must be able to tell stories with threat intelligence, not simply list everything they have.
Glass Half-Full Theatre, an Austin, Texas company that specializes mixing human and puppet characters, presents "Centicenta," the story of 10-year-old Belinda, who loves to invent and tell stories.
If is going to tell stories with universe-altering consequences, it's natural that they won't be able to satisfyingly conclude all of them in a 30-minute block.
Mack passed away on Dec. 21. Musicians are welcome to come play, sing and/or tell stories about JJ, who lived in Orange Beach since 2000 with his wife Jerilyn and daughter Amy.
Not only do I tell stories about my own life in the course of giving advice to people, but really every letter that's written to me is a story.
Rising up from the site is a grassy amphitheatre to gather and tell stories, not far off from a massive metal firepit to heat stones for sweat lodges.
She shared: "I can feel spirits emotions, and see images that tell stories of the dead.
The commission's hearings were about listening to First Peoples tell stories in their own words, and every voice was important, Prof Bourke said.