tell about
Example Sentences
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Each has a story to tell about how they learned of being accepted to MIT.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Even such a 19th-century life as this one has something to tell about what was, tragically, going to happen half a century later.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
Like so many of the stories Americans tell about the world, it wasn’t true.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
There were nice anecdotes to tell about Wembanyama’s eclectic offseason, how he trained with monks in China, worked on his post moves with Hakeem Olajuwon, played a lot of chess and visited NASA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
He wished there was someone he could tell about the peculiar things he’d seen that day.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
