tell the meaning of
Example Sentences
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No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
I cannot tell the meaning of these figures, but between them are suspended censers attached to crosses; a most beautiful symbolic expression of Christ’s mediatorial function.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
His gesture speaks, but hard to tell the meaning of it is, And thus my yearning without end is ever magnified.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
It was now easy to tell the meaning of all these sounds.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
