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Example sentences for "you tell"

  • I promise not to look at your ticket if you tell me the train!

  • You tell me all about it, and it'll do you more good than harm.

  • You tell them Mr. Raffles: it will be as new to my friends as it is to me.

  • Why didn't you tell me this this morning?

  • Why didn't you tell me of your experience last night?

  • Why didn't you tell my Jack to fetch me here sooner, Jim?

  • You tell me what to do, and whatever you say I'll do it.

  • You are going to do that and--and--Why didn't you tell me before?

  • I wonder what Labe will say when you tell him?

  • Well, Al, you tell me, I understand that there has been nothin' underhand in your acquaintance with her daughter.

  • Why don't you tell him to eat like a man and not like a bird?

  • On the contrary, I shall be much obliged to you if you tell me the whole truth.

  • And the report--you tell me--is, that Mademoiselle de la Valliere never had a lover.

  • You tell me you love me; in the name of that affection you wish me to sacrifice my reputation and my honor, yet, when I offer you money which is my own, you refuse me.

  • Them under the chair are Uncle Hughey's, didn't you tell me?

  • Can't you tell when a flood's been eating the banks?

  • Can't you tell a man what's making your eyes bug out so?

  • Why didn't you tell me as soon as you knew that I was burdensome to you?

  • I shouldn't be surprised if you tell me that I have congestion of the lungs.

  • Won't it be better if you tell me why you have come here?

  • They have been staying in the country as you tell me, to keep out of the explosion.

  • You tell me too little; you should tell me everything.

  • Why didn't you tell a fellow all this at the outset?

  • Do you tell me, Caesar," said Dick, "that they have doors in your country?

  • Do you tell me, Caesar," said John, "that in your country they do not wear their coats on Christmas Day?

  • And I know I shall do better if you tell me.

  • Almost before her countenance had time to change she hurried out the words, "Why didn't you tell me before!

  • Can't you tell me exactly, instead of in such general terms as you have used?

  • Why can't you tell us the name of that young man of science?

  • But why don't you tell Flavie to put a stop to it?

  • Topsy, I shall have to whip you, if you tell lies so.

  • Don't you tell us all, once a year, that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed?

  • If you tell me,' said Ralph; 'if you tell me that he is dead, I forgive you all else.

  • If you tell me that he is dead, I am in your debt and bound to you for life.

  • But for the rest: you tell a pedigree Of threescore and two years- a silly time To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.

  • Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo?

  • And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a fariner's fire?

  • Did n't you tell me once, Clement, that you were attempting a bust of Innocence?

  • I don't think the fellows that write such criticisms as you tell me of want to correct your faults.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you tell" 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:
    writes thus; you believe; you fellows; you haven; you just; you know anything about; you look; you mean; you say; you should; you very well know; you will have the; young birds; young creature; young days; young madam; young trees; young women; your business; your good; your love; your people; your servant; your sister; your uncle; your word