show and tell
Example Sentences
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For years, the volume — a 19th-century French treatise on the human soul — was brought out for show and tell, and sometimes, according to library lore, used to haze new employees.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2024
"Last year in school, he made a show and tell of going in an ambulance."
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2022
You’ve got 10 episodes and so much content and six love stories to show and tell.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2022
Fathers come up to him after the show and tell him how much they identify with the man he portrays on stage.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
As to the art of pitching, of course, the old man could show and tell, but he could no longer do.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
