Below you will find example sentences with "told investigators". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Told Investigators in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: investigators
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.6 words

Words in this phrase

told investigators

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • told can mean: simple past and past participle of tell Common word
  • investigators can mean: plural of investigator Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 14 start, 5 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

alleged assassin told investigators that he 1× and officials told investigators there was 1× blackmun told investigators that he 1× campbell also told investigators that he 1× christina bobb told investigators last fall 1× employee also told investigators he was 1× gray later told investigators that carter 1× hansen told investigators schmidt had 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a police officer 1× abeтащs alleged assassin 1× another trump lawyer 1× blackmun told investigators 1× but after staub 1× campbell also told 1×

Common sentence endings:

a coarse pejorative 1× a non u 1× alley prosecutors said 1× an overtime shift 1× briefing prosecutors said 1× could be notified 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

officials 3× two 3× prosecutors 3× night 2× daughter 2× leaving 2× death 2× carter 2× johnson 2× children 2× police 2× drink 2×

Related phrases

told reporters told reuters told cnn witness told spokesperson told federal investigators told abc told nbc repeatedly told spokesman told

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around investigators:

federal investigators 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

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Just after it in the phrase index:

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Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

told reporters told reuters told cnn told abc told nbc

Same ending:

federal investigators

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "told investigators" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as alleged assassin told investigators that he, and officials told investigators there was, officials, two and prosecutors stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with told reporters, told reuters, told cnn and federal investigators, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with told investigators

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Campbell also told investigators that he was working an overtime shift. (11 words)

Pluid told investigators she did not feel “qualified” to interview young children. (12 words)

Palmeri told investigators he had shown “not the best judgment” and was transferred to DC. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

In a November 2022 court filing, prosecutors said Miller told investigators he'd met with Graber the day of her murder, that he felt "frustration" over her hurting his grade point average, and in their interview referred to her with a coarse pejorative. (43 words)

Blackmun told investigators that he had called a meeting with experts and other U.S.O.C. officials after learning of the accusations, giving investigators names of several of the attendees, to initiate an internal review of the Nassar case. (40 words)

R.W. told the police she had three glasses of wine, a mixed drink and about five shots of tequila, and their waitress told investigators that Mr. Zamora appeared to be urging R.W. to drink more. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Blackmun told investigators that he had called a meeting with experts and other U.S.O.C. officials after learning of the accusations, giving investigators names of several of the attendees, to initiate an internal review of the Nassar case.

The night before she died, Bernadean had also told her daughter that she was planning on leaving her husband, the daughter told investigators.

According to a article citing Chris Watts' arrest warrant, the father of two told investigators that his wife strangled their two daughters to death after he told her he wanted a divorce.

Gray later told investigators that Carter had told him that Johnson had exposed himself to Carter’s children and that Johnson was still alive when they called 911 after leaving him in the alley, prosecutors said.

R.W. told the police she had three glasses of wine, a mixed drink and about five shots of tequila, and their waitress told investigators that Mr. Zamora appeared to be urging R.W. to drink more.

AbeтАЩs alleged assassin told investigators that he killed Abe, one of JapanтАЩs most influential and divisive politicians, because of AbeтАЩs apparent links to a religious group that he hated.

According to the sources, the former Mar-a-Lago employee also told investigators he was “bothered” and “shocked” to hear that the former president had provided such seemingly sensitive information to a non-U.

Another Trump lawyer, Christina Bobb, told investigators last fall that Corcoran had drafted the letter and asked her to sign it in her role as a designated custodian of Trump’s records.

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A number of the recipients have told investigators that they were referred to Grixti by Labour MPs, ministers’ aides and customer care officials from the Prime Minister’s office.

A police officer who responded to the scene that night told investigators the baby was “puking and sick” when transported to a hospital for treatment.

But after Staub’s death, Lavender Farms employees and officials told investigators there was no policy in place at the time to keep the nurses' station staffed overnight.

Campbell also told investigators that he was working an overtime shift.

Channel 12 reported that she told investigators that the group took two separate flights so that if one of them were arrested, the others could be notified.

Hansen told investigators Schmidt had the dirt bikes, but the dirt bikes were not found at Schmidt’s property.

In a November 2022 court filing, prosecutors said Miller told investigators he'd met with Graber the day of her murder, that he felt "frustration" over her hurting his grade point average, and in their interview referred to her with a coarse pejorative.

One passenger told investigators that Torres had asked where on the safety card it showed where the door handle was located during the flight attendants' pre-takeoff safety briefing, prosecutors said.

Palmeri told investigators he had shown “not the best judgment” and was transferred to DC.

Parents told investigators that when they picked their child up from Crème de la Crème one day in August 2020, the kid was favoring one of their arms.

Phelps told investigators that Rainwater was staying with him until she could get on feet, mentioning she was going to Chicago.

Pluid told investigators she did not feel “qualified” to interview young children.

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