Example Sentences

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"Have tongue, will tattle," said Maxine�and she did.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marie-Laure sits among them, wondering who will cave, who will tattle, who will be the bravest.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Fill your house with gossip, and your children will tattle.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

"The worse of it is she will tattle to father and mother that we flew so close to her that we knocked her wing out of joint," said Goldeye.

From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston