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Example sentences for "tell stories"

  • It’s a shame to have to tell stories and be stopped every minute.

  • Now, it’s hard enough to have to tell stories by the dozen as Polly Pepper does, and be called to account for every word,” said Jasper.

  • Why the Morning Glory Climbs, by Elizabeth McCracken, in Miss Bryant's How to Tell Stories, is a simple fanciful tale.

  • Tell Stories 3, 4, 5 and 7 in Part Second.

  • In How to Tell Stories to Children, page 145.

  • Nathalie finally ended her Pioneer recital by telling about the story club the girls had formed to tell stories to the little children in the colored settlement.

  • We don't tell stories in the country, unless we have to walk straight along the drives, that, as Papa says, we may have some solace.

  • I do love to tell stories that I know really happened.

  • I have heard from my housekeeper's urchin of a son that you are a 'master hand' to tell stories.

  • I never heard anything like her to tell stories.

  • Oh, of course she was wonderful, and much greater than others; but I wish you could have heard her tell stories in Scotland.

  • The sound from the Vivians' bedroom was very hilarious for the next three-quarters of an hour; but presently Margaret came forward and asked all the girls if they would seat themselves, as Betty was going to tell stories.

  • There may be an opportunity to tell stories or for a talk to the children which, when their vacation is over, they are glad to remember.

  • Probably the story teller has neither time nor strength to tell stories both in school and library.

  • Miss Shedlock came to America to tell stories to children and to their fathers and mothers.

  • Just as bad to say nothing at all as to tell stories!

  • First, then, we tell stories because we love to tell them and because the children love to listen.

  • Usually they were persuading him to tell stories, and when he condescended to do so, the older ones flocked around him, too, and they were never disappointed.

  • Usually they were persuading him to tell stories," writes Ebers, from his recollections of Froebel as an old man at Keilhau.

  • Story telling is like a two-edged sword; sometimes it helps and sometimes it is a distinct disadvantage to tell stories.

  • The best advertising solicitors and best salesmen are those who get business on business grounds and through their knowledge of their business, rather than through their ability to tell stories, order dinners and drink liquor.

  • You must know when to tell stories, and, above all, do not tell stories to your customer that he could not repeat in his home.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell stories" 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:
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