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How to use the word tells in a Sentence? Page #8

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What it tells us is that we're taking the steps now in order to prepare for potentially a seasonal Covid vaccine much like we have for the flu.

Elizabeth Woody

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If employers don't have to provide hazard pay, they won't. The fact that many companies have ended their hazard pay policies tells me they feel it's no longer needed to attract workers.

Nicole Hallett

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Its just been great to have him around. Ive always been a fan of the way my dad tells stories.

Casey Beathard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This case is getting national notoriety and we continue to call for transparency in this case like all the cases all around the country, it was a very selective video to release. That tells me that the Police Departmentwants to control the narrative.

Danny Ortega

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

added by Normando
4 years ago

What you all have shown is that a people's movement here is not an accident, it is a mandate, this absolutely strengthens us. It's not just about winning or losing, but so much of this is about how we win. To win with that kind of mandate is transformative, and it tells us that our policy positions are not an accident.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This historic shipwreck tells the story of Germany's increasing naval strength in the late-19th century at a time when Britain and Germany were on friendly terms, the SMS Grosser Kurfürst is important as the only non-Royal Naval warship recorded as wrecked in English waters for the period 1860 -- 1913.

Duncan Wilson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Trump is very familiar to Filipinos. Many people have observed that he and Duterte have many things in common -- they are both sexist at best, misogynous at worst. They incite to hate and sometimes to violence, and they tend to divide and conquer, making it us against them, instead of providing a leadership that tries to unite and to heal, but in general, Filipinos are stunned by what's happening in the US. It is familiar to us -- we have a president who tells police to shoot people dead -- but this is the United States. It's always been the guiding light, the values of democracy, the founding fathers' declaration of independence. And for the last three years, we and the world have grappled with who takes global leadership. We are wondering, has democracy failed?

Maria Ressa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Which tells us, that if the body is capable of making an immune response to clear the virus of natural infection, that's a pretty good proof of concept, having said that, there is never a guarantee.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I said go to the church, I didn't know, protesters or not, nobody tells me that. They say,' Yes sir, we'll go to the church,'.

Barron Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The data tells us of a devastating impact from Covid-19 on people of African descent, as well as ethnic minorities in some countries, including Brazil, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, in many other places, we expect similar patterns are occurring, but we are unable to say for sure given that data by race and ethnicity is simply not being collected or reported.

Michelle Bachelet

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Disney is the market leader in not just the theme park business, but in tourism worldwide, it tells the industry that tourists likely will be back traveling again soon because no one draws tourists like Disney can.

Robert Niles

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The fact that we found the Wolfe Disk using this method, tells us that it belongs to the normal population of galaxies present at early times, when our newest observations with ALMA surprisingly showed that it is rotating, we realized that early rotating disk galaxies are not as rare as we thought and that there should be a lot more of them out there. Thanks to ALMA, we now have unambiguous evidence that they occur as early as 1.5 billion years after Big Bang.

Marcel Neeleman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All it tells us is a binary. Are you clear to work or are you not clear to work?

Mike Stabile

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My heart tells me to just take it one day at a time.

Lai Yau Kiew

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This study is really refreshing because it tells us remdesivir isn't the only game in town and maybe there are other options around, these drugs have a track record of safety.

Peter Chin-Hong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( This) tells us we had community transfer far earlier than we had known.

Sara Cody

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were getting a lot more sales and its also scary. I mean, are we going to have the product available? You know, are we going to have the staff available, can we pull this off? Coleman asked. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Coleman tells Fox News that he has about 500 flower deliveries each day leading up to Mothers Day on Sunday. Hes currently hiring more staff to help with demand. Were doing this the best way we can, we really take it seriously keeping our customers, their recipientsand our staff safe.

Mothers Day approaches

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I've been working this industry my whole adult career, which is around 25 years now as a manager, and all of my experience tells me that that just isn't going to be the case.

Nick Ottewell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While some members of The Legislature might believe this crisis is over, common sense and all of the scientific data tells us we're not out of the woods yet, by refusing to extend the emergency and disaster declaration, Republican lawmakers are putting their heads in the sand and putting more lives and livelihoods at risk.

Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You can't change your nature, your character. Your driving style is like your handwriting. It tells a lot about your personality.

Ari Vatanen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The phased-in operations were clear to us, that you have at least 14 days of flat hospitalizations or infection -- we're still going up -- and that there is mass testing, which we do not have, we've expanded it, but we're certainly not where we're testing most people in Georgia. That tells me that we are not ready to open.

Mayor Van Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It tells us this virus is much more widespread than we thought, the hospitalization rate may be much lower because the denominator( of people infected) is so much bigger.

Amesh Adalja

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He has no problem telling me when he disagrees and he tells me he agrees, the heck with it, just tell the truth and whatever it is, it is.

New York

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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