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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tell .
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Examples
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This action is what is being prescribed when a label tells you to hand-wash; usually you hand-wash because the fabric is so delicate, so weak, or so weakened when wet that it could not take agitation or spinning without damage.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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This action is what is being prescribed when a label tells you to hand-wash; usually you hand-wash because the fabric is so delicate, so weak, or so weakened when wet that it could not take agitation or spinning without damage.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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This action is what is being prescribed when a label tells you to hand-wash; usually you hand-wash because the fabric is so delicate, so weak, or so weakened when wet that it could not take agitation or spinning without damage.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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This action is what is being prescribed when a label tells you to hand-wash; usually you hand-wash because the fabric is so delicate, so weak, or so weakened when wet that it could not take agitation or spinning without damage.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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A label tells us that the piece represents 'an optimistic meditation on the democratising potential of participatory media'.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Richard Dorment 2012
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The label tells you the sitter was Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, and you instantly sense that this man is racked with anxiety.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Richard Dorment 2012
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The title tells the tale of a dichotomous man: Reverend.
Bishop T.D. Jakes: Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bishop T.D. Jakes 2012
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The title tells the tale of a dichotomous man: Reverend.
Bishop T.D. Jakes: Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bishop T.D. Jakes 2012
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The title tells you why the central character in Roth's frighteningly condensed novel – a man's whole life has been crammed into these few pages – has to be nameless.
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I think it's meant to be regarded as a myth: the title tells the story.
Jillian Burt: How Should Complex Digital Works Be Reviewed? 2010
kjola commented on the word tells
I figure people should know their own minds, and if they leave themselves open (and give their "tells" so easily) then they are asking to be manipulated. source
July 8, 2009