"tell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Later, Lindenmeyer gravely tells his 'masterpiece' his fate.
- We could never meet at his place because of 'roommate trouble,' he would gravely tell me.
- While building the hotel, she gravely tells us, the Lost City of Atlantis was by chance uncovered and these gloomy chambers "under the sea" are some of its remains.
- Flannery, for instance, creates an instant saint when he gravely tells a widow that he saw her husband rise from the dead; and with dry humor the author shows us the consequences.
- Christine, looking at her son's body, gravely tells the police "Some boys never come home."
- 'It's a good thing that we're getting these children out of this city,' the zealot gravely told the doctor, who once more happily entertained the notion that life was imitating art.
- The Russians, he gravely told her, were extremely amiable, easy to get on with, exceedingly literary, since everything was done on paper, and Russia was the only country in which people knew how to obey.
- At least that's what stock market commentators have been gravely telling us for at least a year.
- 'I knew it couldn't be the murder weapon,' he gravely told Wickham, 'because I was using it on Friday evening, hours after MacQuillan was found dead.'
- The students are given only one day to prepare and Escalante gravely tells them that the test will be harder than the first.
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