TOLD in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for TOLD, such as:
1. All truths are not to be told.
2. All truth is not always to be told.
3. Don't just blindly accept what you are told.
4. Nor would he have cared if he had been told.
5. She told me he was actually very good in bed.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TOLD
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She laughed at him for not knowing the simplest sick-bed duties and told him to "go right along out" and leave her to see to things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Only one thing weighed on him, and that was his having told Zeena that he was to receive cash for the lumber.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  "If you meant to engage a girl you ought to have told me before you started," he said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  Why, you told me yesterday you'd fixed it up with him to pay cash down.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  "That girl that's coming told me she was used to a house where they had a furnace," Zeena persisted with the same monotonous mildness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  "I told you I was never scared with you," she answered.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Why, Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to--to--an--amicable agreement with Mr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  The boys bowed, shook hands and told Scarlett they'd be over at the Wilkeses' early in the morning, waiting for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  She laughed like everything when we told her about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Instinct stronger than reason and knowledge born of experience told her that he loved her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Toby, who had handled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his own business.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  Nor would he have cared if he had been told.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He told them he was old and feeble and was not able to walk so far.
2  Don't just blindly accept what you are told.
3  According to the Bible, an angel told Mary that she would have God's son Jesus.
4  She told me he was actually very good in bed.
5  It's only fair to add that they were not told about the problem until the last minute.
6  I told him that he should be man enough to admit he had done wrong.
7  A kid I used to be friends with turned against me after being told that I'd been insulting him.
8  Many of the women had left their husbands behind and they told of their fears that they may never see them again.
9  I told him I couldn't stop him, he was a free agent.
10  The guide pointed at a pagoda and told us that it was built hundreds of years ago.
11  All truths are not to be told.
12  All truth is not always to be told.
13  If a friend tells a fault, imagine always that he has not told the whole.
14  But there are some truths too cruel, before the faces one has to announce them to, to be told.
15  The teacher told his students to answer up when the master came.