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Example sentences for "are told"

  • The details of the balloon's dying struggles and of our own rough descent, entailing the fracture of my daughter's arm, are told in another volume.

  • We are told, however, that in actual trial the horizontal motion much increases the pressure under the falling plane, and it is this fact on which the possibility of natural and artificial flight depends.

  • Yet, we are told, 'the sense of his authority as a father was never lost in his playfulness as a companion'.

  • His dislike of early rising amounted, we are told, 'almost to a constitutional infirmity'.

  • These letters fell, we are told, like sparks on a heap of gunpowder.

  • The Koreisch (we are told in Sirat Arrasul, fol.

  • The oath was kept, we are told, by his giving her one blow with a rod of a hundred stalks.

  • So also of Jehoshaphat, we are told in the first place that he walked in the first ways of his father Asa and abolished the high places in Judah (2Chronicles xvii.

  • In the old and instructive story of Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal we are told (Judges ix.

  • Here and there we are told of occasions on which the Northern kingdom came in contact with Judah; here the Jewish feeling appears which dictated the selection.

  • Of the first mentioned we are told that in the third year of his reign he appointed a royal commission of notables, priests, and Levites, to go about with the Book of the Law, and teach in the cities of Judah (xvii.

  • Camille is an artist," we are told; "she has genius, and she leads an exceptional life such as could not be judged in the same way as an ordinary existence.

  • We are told that: "The Republican party was determined to make use of the cross-questioning of the prisoners for accusing the Government and for preaching Republicanism and Socialism.

  • We are told that, during the Revolution, Patience was a sort of intermediary between the chateau and the cottage, and that he helped in bringing about the reign of equity in his district.

  • A little farther on we are told: "They are not guilty, for they love each other.

  • Infantry regiments, we are told, advanced to the attack with music and with drums beating, and killed and lost thousands of men.

  • The resurrection happened, we are told, a day sooner than the prediction imported.

  • It was, we are told, to a kingdom: and indeed the temptation was little enough, considering that the chief conductor of the plot was crucified for his pains.

  • To carry on this plot, we are told, that the next thing which Jesus did, was, to make choice of proper persons to be his disciples.

  • He wanted, we are told, the common and necessary foundation for a new revelation, the authority of an old one to build on.

  • It is in vain that we are told, "The bricks are alive to this day to testify to it; therefore, deny it not.

  • Undoubtedly he acted a wise part; for, in 1760, as we are told, Uriel Freudenberger was condemned by the canton of Uri to be burnt alive, for publishing his opinion that the legend of Tell had a Danish origin.

  • Nestor quaffs lightly from a goblet which, we are told, not two men among the poet's contemporaries could by their united exertions raise and place upon a table.

  • Italy rang with the scandal of it, we are told.

  • We are told that he gained his election by simony.

  • But St. John the Divine was mad, we are told,--madness and inspiration being judged as one and the same thing.

  • We are told that no attempt was made to answer him; and, though those who tell us so were zealous Episcopalians, we may easily believe their report; for what answer was it possible to return?

  • His name, we are told by contemporary pamphleteers, was hardly ever mentioned without a curse.

  • Horrible stories of the cruelty, both of the colonel and of his men, are told in the Short View, by a Clergyman, printed in 1689, and in several other pamphlets of that year.

  • The big canes on the further side hold numberless tortoises, we are told, but see none, for just now they prefer taking a siesta.

  • No one could set it right; there was a fever in the market, and Mr. Laws, we are told, was in despair.

  • His father, we are told, encouraged his love of study by making him a small present for every book he read.

  • This primitive arrangement, we are told, astonished all who heard it.

  • The appellation, we are told, was given in compliment to a peerless dame of the family, celebrated for a fine arm.

  • The news," we are told, "was brought to him while at supper, and did so overwhelm him with grief that he was almost ready to give up the ghost into the hands of the servants that attended him.

  • His disciples, we are told, used to put all their possessions together in one store and use them in common.

  • We are told that he refrained from publishing his doctrines, except by word of mouth.

  • We are told that he wrote only a single book.

  • Storm the citadel, proclaim the entire independence of the wife, and our feeble imaginations, we are told, are utterly incapable of conceiving the glorious future of the race consequent upon this one step.

  • Such, we are told, must be the inevitable results of what is called the emancipation of woman, the entire independence of woman through the suffrage.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are able; are bound; are called; are found; are given; are here; are led; are made; are often; are only; are said; are told; are very; are you; areca nuts; been making; cards were; guard the; left him; little powdered; oblong shape; probably true; strong enough; until well; vicious circle; word and