On this page you'll find 20 example sentences with Told. You'll also see the meaning and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.

Common word

Told in a sentence

Told | Toldthat | Toldo | Toldot

Told meaning

simple past and past participle of tell

Example sentences (20)

Jurors were told Mr Fitzgerald’s murder was planned because Groves told Ms Baitup of an earlier scheme to kill him.

I told the clerk that I had never used a computer before, but she told me the computer format was the only option.

Additionally, the tale told in is told through a framing device tailor-made for children of the 1980s and 1990s.

Recently he saw someone using cocaine and when he told them to stop, they told Kindred he could take another train car.

An Airbnb owner told Jay there was a bus due at 10am, but she later told police that she saw him walk off that morning.

After being told the pharmacy was shut, Ms Baker’s husband said a security guard told him his situation was a common one.

But crown prosecutor Melissa Mahady told the jury the man immediately told his friend about the alleged rape.

Yes, they told me that because they had to fix the frame and open it up or whatever,” Calderon told CTV News.

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The father told mediapersons that his daughter had told him that a teacher and the principal used to “harass” her frequently.

But a defiant PM told told journalists on the flight: “It was Russia who started this in the first place.

When Matt and Carly told their family about the move, he says they thought they were "mad" and told them to "stop being silly".

She hates to say “I told you so,” but she told us so when she said she was going to beat Becky Lynch.

They told of how they were doing some Christmas shopping in Cardiff when their son’s partner, Joanne, told them that he had died.

The new chairman has told me it is something he wanted to consider,’ Deputy Millar told the panel.

A lot of people told us we should quit our jobs and start a business — they told us people pay hundreds of dollars for lesser cakes.

The security guard told police that Brown kept threatening to stab him after he told the man to calm down while the two were tussling.

Both men said they told Edmonton police about the situation, but did not file reports after being told their matters were not criminal.

Crowder told Rodhouse to take her to a hospital and said that Austin had told Crowder that C.C. Had passed out while coloring her hair.

A voice told him his mother had a demon in her and the voice told him she knew she had to die.

He never told me that he loved his parents, but I knew it from the stories he told about them.

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Common combinations with told

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • told the 77×
  • told him 45×
  • told her 38×
  • he told 38×
  • she told 27×
  • told me 26×
  • was told 23×
  • and told 22×
  • had told 20×
  • been told 16×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "told" in a sentence?
An example: "Jurors were told Mr Fitzgerald’s murder was planned because Groves told Ms Baitup of an earlier scheme to kill him." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "told" from real English texts.
What does "told" mean?
Told means: simple past and past participle of tell
How many example sentences with "told" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "told", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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