Those whose business it is to verify luxury bags insist, at least publicly, that there’s always a “tell” to a superfake.

April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
I am at the end of my tell.

Succoth is now associated with a large tell situated in the Jordan Valley, Deir Allah.

All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.

I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

Tell her you’re here.
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Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

She said she hoped she had not distressed him by the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool.

Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.

The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.

Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

An expert can tell an original from a forgery.

Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.

Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold[…]keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.

… the 4 miles at 1 in 180 up to Sanquhar were mounted with no greater fall in speed than from 65 to 59 m.p.h., after which, possibly as a result of easing the engine or because the strain on steam supply was beginning to tell, the final 3½ miles up at 1 in 200 up to milepost 59½ were surmounted at a minimum of 49½ m.p.h.

But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.

I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!

Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

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