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How to use the word tells in a Sentence? Page #14

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We didn't expect to use our telescope so early in the game, it's not even optimized, but to turn it to the centre of the galaxy and obtain these stunning images, the best in the world, tells you you've done something right, better than right.

Fernando Camilo

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It allows us to better articulate who has a problem and who doesn't, and it takes it out of the hands of the client or the culture or the church and puts it squarely on the science, it tells us that this is unrelated to sexual orientation or gender identity, and we didn't have that before. It takes out all that judgment.

Robert Weiss

Found on CNN
6 years ago

His interpretations are flawed and have some empirical pieces missing, but he's effective when he tells those stories.

Michael McFaul

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He said he didn't meddle, he said he didn't meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. Every time he sees me, he says,' I didn't do that.' And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Early on in the speech, Trump delivered a sweeping rebuke of Jon Tester, arguing that while the senator tells Montana voters that he stands with The President on certain issues, he doesn't when it matters. Trump excoriated Tester for voting against the Republican health care plan, the Trump-back tax cuts, strict immigration laws and Neil Gorsuch, his first pick for the Supreme Court.RELATED : Tester touts Trump ties ahead of presidential push to oust him.

Jon Tester

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Understanding if climbing was part of a species' adaptation and to what extent are crucial, that tells us a lot about its ecology and the type of selection forces that were acting on it. The new study supports many previous studies that the foot in A. afarensis was adapted for upright walking and was largely human-like. It also reveals that a few features, especially mobility, are a bit different.

Zeresenay Alemseged

Found on CNN
6 years ago

They took this fraudster from ABC, they suspended him for a month. They should have fired him for what he wrote. He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes, which by the way, tells you they really like me, right? When you think of it, and you know what he cost people? And I said to everybody: 'get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News, sue them.'.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Every time he sees me he says,' I didn't do The Russian ` hoax ', and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means The Russian ` hoax ', i said,' Did you do The Russian ` hoax ' ?' And he said,' No, I did not. Absolutely not,'.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

To this day, he tells me he can’t wait for his state to pass [legalization] laws, and that it was his goal to not need all the prescriptions he took on a daily basis, i have just witnessed too many veterans positively benefiting from it.

Rich Murphy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It tells me that the party is more interested in reducing the number of foreigners in the United States than in reducing illegal immigration, one reason to allow people to immigrate legally is to reduce the incentives to come illegally, and so this entire portion of that immigration bill is working at cross-purposes to the goal of securing the border and reducing illegal immigration.

David Bier

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It would be a group of five or seven that all had the same answers and nobody was related, that tells me that they’re coached.

San Diego

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was two years old when Erdogan came to power. My family tells me of the pre-2000 years, life was difficult then. I wouldn't have wanted to live in those years.

Mehmet Salih Takil

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The Shinzo Abe administration tells us that North Korea and China are dangerous, but The Abe administration's the Japanese government that's more dangerous for us, i want Japan to be good friends with China.

Yoko Kina

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We had strong returns this week, but the mutual fund and [exchange-traded fund] investors weren't buying it, i don't think it's concerning at all but it tells us investors were taking some of that hard-won profit off the table.

Tom Roseen

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We want Twitter to be the little bird on your shoulder that tells you what you need to know when you need to know it.

Keith Coleman

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Political science tells us the Democrats will need a substantial edge in the national vote, maybe 10 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations so they can take the House.

Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Everyone tells leaders it's not their fault when their men get killed in war, but every leader in their heart knows that's not altogether true.

Lucian Truscott

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The story of HTLV-1 in Australia has been complicated by the extreme remoteness of many of the newly identified high-prevalence communities, and in the early investigations, the lack of ethical consent given in primary language to test samples for HTLV-1, the Australian experience tells us that HTLV-1 infections can become highly entrenched in communities that have preserved practices that allow an opportunity for HTLV-1 transmission.

Damian Purcell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This house, to me, tells the story of the Cash family but it tells the story of hundreds of other families who may not have been as famous but still came here looking for a new start.

Edward Salo

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It really tells you that there's no justification at all for the Federal Reserve to slow down the growth pace, which tells you that maybe this hiking thing and long term yields is real.

Anthony Chan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Understanding where, when, and how these additional pedestrian crashes are happening can point the way to solutions, this analysis tells us that improvements in road design, vehicle design, and lighting and speed-limit enforcement all have a role to play in addressing the issue.

David Harkey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Cub Scouts is a lot of fun, and now it's available to all kids, that's why we love' Scout Me In' -- because it speaks to girls and boys and tells them,' This is for you. We want you to join !'.

Stephen Medlicott

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right.

Chaim Siegel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's (Musk is) sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right.

Chaim Siegel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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