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How to use the word tells in a Sentence? Page #10

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Today we choose to remember Tess with celebration filled with music she created, music that inspired her and music that tells a story about Tess to friends and family, we celebrate Tess with the written word which she revered and used so beautifully to reflect on herself and the world.

David Lourie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the car Ghislaine Maxwell tells me that I have to do for Prince Andrew what I do for Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and that just made me sick.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Quantum mechanics tells us that every feeling is a collapse of some wave functions due to the interference of a matrix of attention functions.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I have always recorded things. Naturally, my brain tells me to record things, even my accidents. I have always done it and at my job I was keen on figures and I could convert from metric to English measurement quickly.

Russ Mantle

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If someone tells you if you give your baby daughter a shot she's going to have cancer in 10 years, what's a mom supposed to do with that information? i sort of became known as the person to call when you had a question.

Shoshana Bernstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I saw a woman with ambition, with drive and all of a sudden I realized,'S -- t, this is the kind of stuff that's been weaponized against me. I relate to that,' that's when it became clear to me just how important this story was. Because if we can see the power of the message through someone who we may not agree with or somebody who might even anger us, that tells you there's something real there.

Charlize Theron

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If the Halloween season and Mars Wrigley products were not delivering, we would not get eight weeks. We would not get six weeks, the extension of the season tells you how important Halloween is to our business partners.

Tim LeBel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Someone has got to be a guide that tells [ the president ] that you either have the authority or you don't, or Mr. President, don't do it.

John Kelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The success of Japan tells us that our technology is up to that mark... just like where we got Masa Son as a partner in Japan, if we get some partner like that, we're headed to the US soon, we would love to start the journey ASAP, but we would have to build our finances well for [ the ] United States market... inshallah if it happens soon, then we are going to do it soon.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you feel stuck in the middle of the extremes in our politics and you are tired of the noise and the nonsense, you've got a home with me, i am someone who tells the truth, I don't make promises I can't keep.

Amy KlobucharA

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am someone who tells the truth, I don't make promises I can't keep.

Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This study tells us much of what we already knew : Electrolytes -- like sodium and potassium -- contribute to better hydration, while calories in beverages result in slower gastric emptying and therefore slower release of urination.

Melissa Majumdar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's just fantastic, I just can't believe it, everyone tells me to take a bunch of pictures.

Stephanie Mealey.Harry Phillips

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are in the face of a mass extinction event, science tells us we are, that the implications of climate change are extremely wide-ranging and would cause mass suffering on a huge scale. The momentary inconvenience experienced by commuters has to be seen alongside the situation that were in.

Kaela Bamberger

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Frankly, every religious and non-religious moral tradition tells us that we have some responsibility of stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what's around us and our neighbor, eventually it gets to the point this is less and less about the planet as an abstract thing and more about specific people suffering specific harm because of what we're doing right now.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It does almost everything by itself. Reads humidity levels, tells me when to add water and fertilizer and by how much.

Alexandre Gobbi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What Nobody Tells You About Blogging Success You have been writing severally and have even gotten a few likes but you are not getting any good results or blogging a success. The links have become hard to come by while traffic, on the other hand, is not coming in as you expected and the comments section on your site isn't just happening. Then you get these thoughts Maybe you just need patience as you wait for your traffic to pick up and your blogging success to become reality. Or is it possible that your content might really not be all that and prevent your blogging success? Does it suck (in so doing it breaks one of the rules of a copy blogger) and are people just trying to be nice in order for them not to hurt your already messed up feelings. The hard truth is that there is no way to tell for sure what we are talking about here is about quality is the main thing. One man's meat is another man’s poison and that is how it is. The scale also matters unlike what happens in America's go…

onlineibusiness

added by onlineibusiness
5 years ago

I know how to write forever. I don't think I could have happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me. It's control. Nobody tells me what to do. It's mine, it's free, and it's a way of thinking. It's pure knowledge.

Toni Morrison

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I felt that he should have more information because only one was not born in America, so that tells me he had not done his homework on that issue. But I think those four people needed to be criticized.

Bill Owens

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have so much to learn still about the moon, which then not only tells us about other planets in the solar system but about the Earth itself, lastly, its exciting.

Paul Hayne

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I hate to talk about The President like that, but the guy is a liar. Have you ever seen any President in [ the White House ] where that many people resigned ? it just tells you that The President's not doing something right... The only thing I like about The President is that the economy is doing good, you know ?

Mark Kimbel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The fuse went down, I looked at it and then it popped in my hand when I was going to throw it. he tells his family how he feels betrayed by those people around us and wants to start a new life far away from where he grew up.

Adriana Carreto

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He tells his family how he feels betrayed by those people around us and wants to start a new life far away from where he grew up.

Adriana Carreto

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He just tells me where to hit it and I go from there, the game plan's pretty concrete. It's actually quite easy. I really don't have to do much thinking. I just go out there and play.

Brooks Koepka

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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