tell the meaning of
Example Sentences
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Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was now easy to tell the meaning of all these sounds.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines
Thus ‘isothermal’ is quite of modern invention; but what a long story it would be to tell the meaning of ‘isothermal lines’, all which is summed up in and saved by the word.
From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe
Magicians, astrologers, Chaldæans, and soothsayers, all the wise men of Babylon came to his palace to hear his dream, and to try to tell the meaning of it.
From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
