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How to use telltale in a sentence

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His feet are swollen and his skin cracked, both telltale signs of malnutrition.
While large cash transfers can occasionally tip off authorities to drug activity, terrorists leave few telltale financial signs.
The goldeneye's white spot is between its telltale yellow eye and grey beak, rather than behind the eye.
One was setting up a polygraph, laying out the lie detector's telltale wires and cords.
And oil analysis reveals telltale signs of the health of a given machine and what must be done to keep it in optimum running condition.
Soon after uttering the last word, the telltale, music-ruining shatter of glass could be heard.
After a few dives, the inlet filter on my serviced regulator bore the telltale brown dust of internal tank corrosion.
Indeed, there are some clear telltale signs, that suggest that this is not necessarily a one time occurrence.
It strikes me as another telltale sign of the insidious colonization of our personal and social lives by the ethic of the algorithm.
There has been an explosion in the number of astronomers scanning the skies for the telltale wobble of distant worlds.
Loss of bounciness, sudden blisters or recurring pain are also telltale signs.
He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide.
In one grouping, each original image appears to be repeated in a three-frame series still bordered by the telltale edging of the 8mm filmstrip.
Her hands went to her face, attempting to rub the telltale glow from her cheeks.
Torpedoes powered by compressed air left a telltale wake in the water and gave a warning to a target.
He runs outside and inspects the car for any telltale signs of the encounter.
Then listen for the telltale tsk tsk, or check for that knowing nod of the head.
The telltale blue of their family eyes was gone, and in its place was a deep burnished gold.
Smokers often end up with telltale lines around their lips, but the damage doesn't stop there.
Bottom line, this article bears all the telltale signs of a journalistic snow job.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thad dropped down beside the telltale feathers that marked the end of a game bird, and seemed to be examining the ground.
These are the telltale overt signs of a comprehensive collapse of the infrastructure and of the export and internal markets.
Surely, if the Maintainer had been introverted before he jumped on the bar, we'd all have noticed the flashing blue telltale.
Nevertheless despite the glibness with which he uttered it, he cringed and a flood of telltale color rose to his hair.
Had he been looking at her he would have seen the telltale color tide her cheeks.
Wade felt the momentousness of that query, but it seemed her face had been telltale enough, without confirmation of words.
They were small, stocky horses, but the telltale saddle galls proclaimed their calling.
Into this place Soapy took his accusive shoes and telltale trousers without challenge.
The idea was to get into position to glass the shadowy sidehills and alder tangles for some telltale dark shape or the flash of white palm.
You never can tell when Jeremiah is snooping about, and he's a telltale.
He had found the trail again, a telltale footprint with the patched sole.
At this point, the wide, old boards of the floor gave a telltale snap.
But Daddy is smarter than the rustlers and he leaves a telltale path of hoofprints for his kids to follow as he travels the country.
Brooke, getting a trifle confused as his eyes went from one telltale face to the other.
But her telltale eyes were red and glanced at me from between swollen lids.
He listened for the puff of a motor or some other telltale sound that would prove the correctness of his theory.
It was hardly needful for Katy to answer with her lips a question to which her telltale cheeks had made instant reply.
I'm no telltale, Anne Shirley, and anyhow I was just as much to blame as you.
But at last the roar of a bigger and nearer break than usual brought her out of her torpor, and she looked up, and her practiced eye fell upon that telltale rush of water.
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