tell the meaning of
Example Sentences
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No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
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
It was now easy to tell the meaning of all these sounds.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines
And yet she would have been puzzled to tell the meaning of the expression, for it did not look like a threatening one.
From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
