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
The poor dull devils of her country are all in the practice of gratitude, without finding out what it means; while we can tell the meaning of it, with little or no practice at all.—Lord,
From Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts by Colman, George
He must be able to tell the meaning of a distant object or an indistinct trail, for his enemies may have passed that way recently.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
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
