tell the meaning of
Example Sentences
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Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first place we cannot tell the meaning of the word "cause" when applied to a problem of this sort.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence
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 Ruskin, John
He can tell the meaning of every vestment and of every change in a pontifical high mass, and I think he knows half the Roman Breviary by heart, and all the Psalms!'
From Stradella by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
