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Example sentences for "tell whether"

  • You couldn't tell whether he had been hit by the first shot or the second shot or the third shot, or by how many shots he had been hit?

  • You couldn't tell whether he was hit by the first shot?

  • It was two weeks before they could tell whether he would live or die.

  • In other words, as I understood you, you couldn't tell whether it was on Friday or Saturday, but it could not have been Sunday?

  • Were you able to tell whether it would appear that it had just got to the ramp or how long it had been there?

  • Were you able to tell whether or not this service elevator was in operation?

  • But he did not know enough about arrows to tell whether it was that of a Sioux or of a warrior belonging to some other tribe.

  • Soon, with your eyes covered you will lose the sense of direction and you will not be able to tell whether you go north or south or east or west.

  • For awhile, though, I couldn't tell whether I was up in a balloon or let in on the ground floor.

  • I couldn't tell whether it was a bluff, or what.

  • I suppose it has," said the minister, with a manner which would have puzzled any but one that knew him, to tell whether he were in jest or earnest.

  • Do you know, I can't tell whether it is in Arizona or Wisconsin!

  • It was a sort of battery that Diana had to face, and sometimes a masked battery; but it was impossible to tell whether a shot hit.

  • Tell whether each of the following sentences is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.

  • In +parsing+ an adjective, tell whether it is descriptive or definitive, mention the substantive to which it belongs, and specify the degree of comparison.

  • Tell whether each is declarative, interrogative, or imperative.

  • Tell whether each of these clauses, when standing alone, is a simple or a complex sentence.

  • I can't tell whether I've got to look out for something else or somebody else.

  • I can stand a good deal, but I sat between you and that young fellow, and you couldn't tell whether he was looking at that girl or not.

  • I can't tell whether it would be a Blessing or no.

  • But I can't tell whether I should bid you be well or no.

  • I can't tell whether it is right or wrong, it is enough for me if it were not impious or heretical.

  • But I can't tell whether I had best to mix Water with my Wine, or Wine with Water; this Wine seems to me so likely to have been drawn out of the Muses Fountain.

  • I want him to tell whether he considers that a poem or not.

  • I want him to tell whether he believes the story about the bears eating up children; whether that is inspired.

  • Tell whether He did it or not, and then your people will know whether to hate that God or not.

  • I want him to tell whether he believes the Bible was inspired in any other way than Shakespeare was inspired.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell whether" 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:
    appointed commissioner; but while; could collect; half afraid; lean beef; man should; maximum depth; modern painting; neither can; pointed arch; tell everything; tell him; tell himself; tell mother; tell myself; tell tales; tell thee; tell whether; tell you right here; tell you the truth; telling fortunes; telling her; telling himself; telling you; tells himself; this animal