English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Tell" in Example Sentences
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3205201	Tom told me not to tell Mary that I got kicked out of school.	CK
3221418	Tom wasn't stupid enough to tell Mary what he really thought.	CK
3205199	Tom wouldn't tell me anything about what happened that night.	CK
324428	You can tell what a person is like by looking at his friends.	CK
3205194	You should get Tom to tell you the joke he told me yesterday.	CK
3205193	You told Tom that he needed to get more exercise, didn't you?	CK
3205192	You'll have to tell me the rest of the story some other time.	CK
3205191	You've been told the same thing everybody else has been told.	CK
1858678	"We have to tell Tom about that now." "That's not an option."	CK
40020	A mere glance is not enough for us to tell one from the other.	CM
3205221	Are you telling me there are more people waiting in the lobby?	CK
3205220	Did I tell you I now teach at the high school near your house?	CK
3060582	Did they tell you anything about their plans for this evening?	sharptoothed
300550	He once lied and told her a rare creature lived in her closet.	CK
2535384	He told me that he had lost his textbook the previous morning.	CK
25130	He told me that whatever might happen, he was prepared for it.	CK
3205219	I can't deliver this until you tell me where to deliver it to.	CK
250754	I cannot stand you telling me all the time what my faults are.	CM
1939465	I don't like him very much. To tell you the truth, I hate him.	linguine
1961268	I thought I told you never to call me while I'm at the office.	CK
1887802	I thought I told you that you should get to the concert early.	CK
1961342	I thought it might be better to tell you now instead of later.	CK
2537135	I wish you'd told that the meeting was going to start at 2:30.	CK
3205218	I'm doing it this way because that's how Tom told me to do it.	CK
2571743	I've been told that I should never ask a woman how old she is.	CK
322582	If he should call me, please tell him I'll be back in an hour.	CK
3205217	If someone could tell me why this happened, I'd appreciate it.	CK
3109450	If you really want to make a lot of money, I can tell you how.	CK
19770	If you work too long without a rest, it begins to tell on you.	NekoKanjya
3162080	It might help if you were the one who told Tom not to do that.	CK
3205216	Let me tell you some jokes you've probably never heard before.	CK
665557	My heart skipped a beat when my wife told me she was pregnant.	darinmex
516093	My son surprised me by tidying up his room without being told.	darinmex
1353743	No matter what I tried, Ken wouldn't do what I told him to do.	CK
747257	She's only going to tell you what she thinks you want to hear.	darinmex
33894	Tell those people to back off so that the helicopter can land.	CK
3205215	Tell Tom that I don't know how to do what he's asked me to do.	CK
646855	The problem is that that boy never does what he is told to do.	CK
265151	To tell the truth, I don't remember anything I said yesterday.	CK
2639661	Tom and Mary haven't yet told anyone they plan to get married.	CK
3205214	Tom and Mary tell each other a lot of things that aren't true.	CK
3075116	Tom has no intention of doing what Mary told him he has to do.	CK
3001435	Tom told Mary he wasn't interested in helping her do anything.	CK
2588738	Tom told me he didn't recognize Mary the last time he saw her.	CK
3205213	Tom told me that you told him that I wouldn't go to his party.	CK
3205212	Tom tricked Mary into telling him the combination to the safe.	CK
284546	When I told him I had some good news for him, he was all ears.	CK
3205211	You don't have to tell me or anyone else if you don't want to.	CK
14530	You told her that you had finished the work three days before.	Swift
1348915	Are you telling me you don't know how to cook hard-boiled eggs?	CM