It was by accident that I stumbled on this bit of archaeology, and as I have a good many namesakes, it may perhaps please some of them to be told about it.
A quaint and typical story of the kind is told about a mouse-maiden.
Another story of birds that foreshadowed a calamity is told about Yorkshire.
When Robert showed him what he could prove, the bad man said it was no use, he had to die in a few days, so he might as well go with a clean conscience, and he told about everything he had done.
He told about all of it, and then he said to father: "Have I made it clear to you?
Father got sort of spunky at that, and he said it was mighty little that mattered most, that could be told about a Chicago lawyer; and mother had better caution Shelley to think more about her work, and write less of the man.
Had anything else arrived at your Dallas office that you were told about at that point?
You remember you talked to him that night and he told about a package that Oswald carried into the Texas School Book Depository Building that morning.
Thus, for instance, the tale which he told about one of the members of his set, who was a relative of a bishop.
The correspondent had thought it such a touching example of conjugal devotion that he told about it at a dinner-party when he came back; and he was struck by the sudden silence that fell.
After Montague had had his heart to heart talk with the mother, Miss Anne Evans became very haughty toward him; whereby he knew that the old lady had told about it, and that the daughter resented his presumption.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "told about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
