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Telltale in sentence

26 examples of Telltale in a sentence

Now any astronomer will tell you, this is the telltale sign of something that doesn't originate from Earth.
Pamela Meyer: Okay, what were the telltale signs?
It comes from chronically rubbing one's nose up and down, trying to get rid of those allergy symptoms, and yet, here was Veronica, a grown woman, with the same telltale sign of allergies.
Maybe, if we aggregated the data, maybe we could identify telltale signs that best predict that a car accident is going to take place in the next five seconds.
Researchers recently have looked at the question of biopsies, cancerous biopsies, and they've asked the computer to identify by looking at the data and survival rates to determine whether cells are actually cancerous or not, and sure enough, when you throw the data at it, through a machine-learning algorithm, the machine was able to identify the 12 telltale signs that best predict that this biopsy of the breast cancer cells are indeed cancerous.
But most will show two telltale properties: sudden thinning at a threshold force, and more gradual thinning after a small force is applied for a long time.
But it's still worthwhile to be aware of telltale clues, like minimal self-references, negative language, simple explanations and convoluted phrasing.
You wouldn’t even know it was there, if not for the red lump that appears, accompanied by a telltale itch.
Some 7th millennium BCE pottery fragments found in Turkey still contain telltale residues of the cheese and butter they held.
They’re also revolutionizing the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease by allowing doctors to see amyloid, the telltale protein buildup that otherwise couldn’t be confirmed without an autopsy.
Now, today we think of Poe in terms of gothic poems and telltale hearts and ravens.
By the time the soldier advanced close enough to see the telltale wires of the bomb, it exploded in a wave of flame.
There are all the usual telltale signs of a kung-fu flick: great choreography, awful dubbing, different "styles" of fighting, and a wide range of greatly exaggerated, often cheesey human emotions.
At the final credit we get a closeup view of the creature's face complete with the telltale stitches across his forehead.
While no two financial crises are identical, all tend to share some telltale symptoms: a significant slowdown in economic growth and exports, the unwinding of asset-price booms, growing current-account and fiscal deficits, rising leverage, and a reduction or outright reversal in capital inflows.
A telltale sign of over-caution among economists and policymakers has been their propensity to convert the need for evidence to an aversion to analytical creativity.
White House Sex CrimesNEW YORK – Sex crime has a telltale signature, even when those directing the outrages are some of the most powerful men and women in the United States.
In the future, geologists will see telltale markers like radioactive carbon – debris from nuclear blasts – and plastic waste scattered across the planet’s surface and embedded in rock.
In fact, a telltale sign of a bubble is that second-rate developers suddenly are able to earn billions.
The new pessimism comes not from Marxists, who have always looked for telltale signs of capitalism’s collapse, but from the heart of the policymaking establishment: Larry Summers, former US President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury, and chief economist of almost everything at one time or another.
Telltale signs of anxiety are already visible.
This is telltale populist rhetoric: there is a “real people,” as defined by the populist; only he faithfully represents it; and everyone else can – indeed should – be excluded.
A strong whiff of burning wood caused me to look up to the sky, where a whitish-yellow sun beckoned, surrounded by the telltale eclipse-like daytime darkness that only thick, sky-high smoke can cause.
But, like their comrades in the pharmaceutical industry, such hackers tend to leave telltale signs.
A few months later off the coast of Syria, I recaptured a few specimens of my fish, adorned with their telltale rings.
The handle of the telltale tea-spoon was visible under the bed-valance.