How do you use Tell in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like inform or narrate, plus the exact meaning.
Tell in a sentence
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Tell meaning
- Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving
- To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
Synonyms of Tell
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Example types with tell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! (7 words)
Did Vlad tell his Vatniks to tell us that? (9 words)
You think we can't tell, but we can tell. (10 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)
Further, it is not the party’s elected MPs to tell branch members to ‘get on board with the program’ to elect more women, it is the branch members who get to tell their candidates and MPs to get on board with the branch’s program. (46 words)
I make sure to tell him important things when he isn’t busy with something else, and when I tell him something he listens, engages with me, and asks questions/acknowledges, so it’s not that he doesn’t hear me, but a day later… poof! (46 words)
Did Vlad tell his Vatniks to tell us that? (9 words)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! (7 words)
I make sure to tell him important things when he isn’t busy with something else, and when I tell him something he listens, engages with me, and asks questions/acknowledges, so it’s not that he doesn’t hear me, but a day later… poof! (46 words)
Example sentences (20)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm!
Other people are better equipped to tell those stories than I am and there are always more stories to tell than time to tell them.
Well, tell that to those who depend on food banks to feed their children; tell it to those who lack housing; tell it to those robbed of all hope.
The boys always tell me; “Mama, we want to come to the house, but (can’t because of) those behind us,” and I asked them to give me their names, to tell me who is really behind them, but they would not tell.
Did Vlad tell his Vatniks to tell us that?
Further, it is not the party’s elected MPs to tell branch members to ‘get on board with the program’ to elect more women, it is the branch members who get to tell their candidates and MPs to get on board with the branch’s program.
I decide to return home, but not to tell my wife or mother, because they would tell me not to go.
I didn't even tell my family I'd joined Slimming World and they could barely tell that I was making changes to my diet - but I was - and now I'm reaping the benefits.
I make sure to tell him important things when he isn’t busy with something else, and when I tell him something he listens, engages with me, and asks questions/acknowledges, so it’s not that he doesn’t hear me, but a day later… poof!
It may tell you to speed up your transition, or it may tell you to wait longer before making the switch.
Most users will tell you it makes the virtual place even more prone to confusion and misinformation than it already was by making it impossible to tell the difference between a bunch of different Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson accounts.
Our objective was to tell the families what happened and one of the things we haven’t been able to do is tell them why.
She went on to tell Visage how ‘fed up’ she is with the reminders of the case and spoke about how she wants to ‘experience what it’s like’ in prison and could even tell her post-prison story in another book.
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.
Tell her how you feel (once you’re sure you know) because it isn’t healthy to keep things bottled up with people we love—but also tell her you understand.
Tell us what you like, and tell us what we could do better.
They need to know the grammar to tell a story and they need to tell it effectively and in a short period of time.
We’re here to tell people, to tell the world, that sanctions kill.
You’re going in to the tell the story, you’re going in to tell them everything you know and then you’re going home.
You think we can't tell, but we can tell.
Phrases with tell
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with tell
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to tell 109×
- tell you 65×
- tell me 28×
- tell the 25×
- tell them 22×
- can tell 22×
- tell us 19×
- tell him 16×
- and tell 13×
- will tell 11×