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How to pronounce tells in English

Tells
/tɛl/

Examples from movies with Tells

Your home tells me you're good folk, just like us.
The Purge - Please Just Let Us Purge
My, uh, wife tells me you made a move on Darien.
Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps
So Anna tells me your bloke wrote a book.
Closer - Anna's Photo Exhibition
They wear their tells like signs around their necks.
Rounders - Atlantic City Suckers
The one who tells you over and over that you should have saved her,
Shutter Island - My Name is Edward Daniels
Nobody tells me what to do. I go bang, bang, bang the drum.
Role Models - A Venti Coffee
I can't help if he tells her one thing and then tells me another.
Life of Crime - A New Plan
He calls here and tells Lara, who cries.
Minority Report - Run
My associate tells me you have five grandkids?
Matchstick Men - Guaranteed Prizes
...tells us this kind of behavior is wrong.
Middle Men - A Part of Ourselves
And the irony of this disease is it tells her she doesn't have a disease.
Glassland - Drinking Herself to Death
The thing he does where he tells people
Mr. Holmes - Do You Regret?
But what's there tells a story if you read between the lines.
Hidden Figures - Russian Spy
I go where he tells me to go, and I do what he tells me to do.
Wonder Woman - Shopping
There is a man comes along, tells me the story about a drought in California.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage - Grenade Roulette

Audio pronunciation of Tells

American pronunciation

Tells pronounced by Ivy (child, girl)
Tells pronounced by Joanna (female)
Tells pronounced by Kendra (female)
Tells pronounced by Kimberly (female)
Tells pronounced by Salli (female)
Tells pronounced by Joey (male)
Tells pronounced by Justin (child, boy)
Tells pronounced by Matthew (male)

British pronunciation

Tells pronounced by Amy (female)
Tells pronounced by Emma (female)
Tells pronounced by Brian (male)