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Example sentences for "told them"

  • I thought it very unkind of them, and I told them I would owe them the money, and they should have it at the end of the month.

  • Nobody believed him when he told them that he only doubled, and he, therefore, gained no credit that way whatever, while his moderation put him at a disadvantage among the other anglers.

  • I told them that he still hadn't come back.

  • And so everyone came to him--especially women--and they believed everything he told them.

  • I was so frightened that I told them everything I knew--even about some horseshoes my mother had made me sell to a blacksmith.

  • Then they asked me about him, and I told them I didn't know where he was and that he hadn't come back home after going to get the change.

  • He told them to let him say anything he wanted to.

  • He told them nothing, left his absence unexplained, and though they were convinced he had made some extraordinary purchase they were never to learn its nature.

  • He hasn't told them to me," her friend smiled, "he has a life of his own.

  • I've understood you you've told them about me?

  • I told them to be of cheer, and hurried here to know your will.

  • He told them, 'Go, show yourselves to the priest, as the law requires; and before you are come there ye shall be healed.

  • Then I told them of Stumm and Gaudian and the whispered words I had not been meant to hear.

  • I bragged about my past and all I had done, and I told them I was going to escape.

  • He mumbled his name, but beyond that and the fact that there was a Something coming from the West he told them nothing.

  • Then I told them of the other name Stumm and Gaudian had spoken.

  • I was trembling with rage, and the major, who shared my utter disgust, told them that he had business to transact, and they took their leave.

  • I told them that I had made up my mind to recover the treasure, and I promised them the fourth part of it, provided they would purchase the sheath; I concluded by threatening again to possess myself of their knife.

  • But he renewed his entreaties, and his wife pressing me in the most engaging manner I told them, in order to prove that I was not trying to elude their invitation, that I was expected to sup at Silvia's house.

  • I told them at once that I wished to see all the performers, one company at a time.

  • When Claude brought his two men up to the Doctor, he told them to go below and get into bed.

  • He told them he had scattered shelled corn in the grass, so that the birds would not be tempted to fly over into Leonard Dawson's cornfield.

  • He wasn't going with them, he told them, but he expected them to give a good account of themselves.

  • They don't believe nowadays everything that's told them.

  • I've told them at Sherry's that I'm to be married.

  • They gave out that it was only a sprain," said he, "because I told them I didn't want it known.

  • I told them I kept company only with one young gentleman, whose whole manner of thinking on religious subjects I found so congenial with my own that I could not live out of his society.

  • On his return, they examined him, and he told them that he found all things at the place in utter confusion and dismay; that the lady of the place was missing, and could not be found, dead or alive.

  • Among other things, I told them that in the fall of 1848 my head-gardener reported that I had fifty bushels of potatoes to spare.

  • I told them I was not a preacher, and had very little experience in public speaking, but I felt a deep interest in matters of morality and religion, and would attempt in a plain way, to set before them the duties and privileges of man.

  • Marshman forgot how Carey had, in 1792, told them on the inspired evangelical prophet's authority to "expect great things from God.

  • I told them that I would not go, that I was determined to stay and see the murder, and that I should certainly bear witness of it at the tribunal of God.

  • I told them of the sure Word of the Gospel, and the way of life by Christ; and, night coming on, left them.

  • Not knowing what better excuse to give I told them I did not want the princess's carriage to be noticed as everyone left the theatre, and that I would bring them again to the theatre the following day.

  • I told them that we must not think of going till the punch was finished, and they agreed, saying, in high glee, that it would be a great sin to leave so good a thing behind.

  • When we were seated in front of a good fire, I told them that if they liked I would go into the next room in spite of the cold.

  • I told them that I should come in the evening to take them to the Aliberti, and felt in a better humour after my visit, for I could see that there was no art or coquetry in what Armelline said.

  • They were enchanted when I told them to try their hands at a bowl of punch, and they simply danced for joy when I pronounced it better than my own brew.

  • He told them not to take his watch, which was the one Sandy Baldwin and Theodore Winters had given him as Governor of the Third House, but we took it all the same.

  • He told them in French, and I lost nothing of them but the nubs.

  • When Pamela and her daughter came to his wedding he told them of a little city by the name of Fredonia (New York), not far from Buffalo, where he thought they might find a pleasant home.

  • He next made a short speech to his men, told them he knew what thieves they were, but implored them not to steal from us, as we would give them a present of cloth when the work was done.

  • We told them that if they wished to remain in the country they had better so arrange at once, for we were soon to leave.

  • We told them to ask him to change himself at once into a lion, and we would give him a cloth for the performance.

  • The black men believed it was true because we told them it was so, but only began to dance with joy when they saw sea-weed and serpents floating past.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "told them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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