- present tense form of tell (3rd person singular).
tells
Example Sentences
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“It’s a fine line between being melodramatic and being truthful” in birth and death scenes, the Southern California native tells The Envelope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“The airline lost my luggage because of the Mist,” Hunter tells Elle.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
He tells me he'd tried diets in the past which worked for the first stone and then "stagnated".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"That tells us we can potentially tune electrical behavior by carefully controlling curvature at the nanoscale."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
When Father Monaghan returns to Manila, he tells Joey about everything he saw at the Tala Leprosarium.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
