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How to use tells in a sentence

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The two-hour show tells the story of Irish dance through the ages with live musicians, singers and dancers.
Bowling newspaper publisher Dan McDonough, also a Boy Scout official, tells about the two scouts who went bowling for the first time.
He tells me this while sipping a Coke in a small downtown Lewiston luncheonette on a wintry afternoon.
Much of what Orme tells us is familiar, though he brings the fruits of very wide reading to enrich the discourse.
Dilsey tells her such talk is ridiculous, but Mrs. Compson enjoys complaining, so continues with her laments.
Although intricate in their themes, each picture tells a thousand different stories while remaining beautifully simple.
Paul Revere tells Johnny to tell Robert Newman, the sexton at Christ's Church, to hang two lanterns.
Rachel tells her Alabaman prom date the truth about herself and his reaction makes the scales fall from her eyes.
He tells that story, without abashment, with pride almost, but then being who he is he can get away with it.
This is what tells us that the Universe probably does have a finite age, it probably is not eternal and ageless as Einstein wanted to believe.
His use of the stage and his movement through the audience shows us how Sparrow tells a story.
Although her children are relieved when she wakes up, the doctor tells them that any sudden shock could provoke another heart attack.
A head gas cutter tells of the time he made a mistake on the job and cut the metal rafter he was sitting on.
To illustrate, she tells the story of the night watchman given to practical jokes.
That tells us that the construction is an interrogative complement clause in each case.
Then he tells me that he is racked by self-doubt and is never satisfied with the interviews he has conducted.
The eighth of 16 children, he tells the story of how, as a child, he worked shining shoes on the street.
It's a small, nondescript, red-brick building on a short street downtown, but the stone crest above the door tells most of the story.
And the importance of history is first of all it tells you the way the world was.
They way he tells it you'd think we were all of us permanently roaming about the land in sackcloth and ashes, wailing and mithering.
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