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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tell.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature 2010

  • 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

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