as-told-to

Definitions

Examples

• “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

• Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.

• Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

• I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• “We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.

• Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

• The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.

• Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

• All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

• Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.