Tell in a sentence

I believe in you and I’ll tell everyone in the world that you are the only thing that matters.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor’s stick?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Wops, said Boyle, I can tell wops a mile off.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— to relate in detail : NARRATE
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Macmillan
— to give information to someone
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Other Word Forms

telling
tells
told


Usage

4 uses of ‘tell’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
71 uses of ‘tell’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
35 uses of ‘tell’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69 uses of ‘tell’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle