What's the difference between retold and told?

Retold


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Retell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
  • (2) Four groups of 14-year-olds, differing in reading level, learning disability status, and socioeconomic status, read and retold short problem narratives and answered questions.
  • (3) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
  • (4) In all three retellings, both groups of subjects retold information in the same order that it occurred in the stories.
  • (5) Both aphasic and non-brain-damaged subjects increased the amount of information retold across three retellings, although only the increases from Retelling 1 to Retelling 2 were statistically significant.
  • (6) Ben Stephenson, controller, BBC drama commissioning, said: "We are proud to bring audiences this beautiful story retold for Christmas 2010 by a master storyteller.
  • (7) Now it is all set to be an ebook and will be retold in two children's formats.
  • (8) All the ingredients of the misery memoir are present in these tales, yet none of them are retold to elicit pity or even compassion, at least not for the subjects themselves.
  • (9) The story of the bank that almost bankrupted Ireland is about to be retold as a stage show, with the villains of the piece – from greedy bankers to politicians such as the former taoiseach Bertie Ahern – played by puppets.
  • (10) Students read and retold the texts and reported on their use of metacognitive strategies and comprehension monitoring and assessment.
  • (11) Poems and letters, like the one recovered in Aleppo, shed light on how personal stories of “jihad” are shared, retold, and mythologised on Russian-language websites and social media accounts.
  • (12) Equally bold was Kalin's Swoon, which retold the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the notorious gay child-killers whose murder of a young boy had already inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion.
  • (13) By contrast, the younger normally achieving children's reading comprehension scores were best accounted for by their sentence completion, the proportion of the stories that they retold, and word retrieval scores.
  • (14) Each subject read and retold, in either English or ASL, 20 short stories.
  • (15) The groups also did not differ in their understanding of the factual details of the retold stories, but did differ significantly in their comprehension of the relationships linking the critical parts of the stories together.
  • (16) The story of how she persuaded them not to take away her children is one that is told and retold in the family.
  • (17) But what we do know is that their stories will be told and retold with the aid of hundreds of videos, photos, cartoons and graphics all over the world.
  • (18) Non-brain-damaged subjects consistently retold slightly more information units than aphasic subjects, but the differences were not statistically significant.
  • (19) The proportion of stories retold and the phonological awareness score of the older normally achieving children best accounted for the variance in their reading scores.
  • (20) Condition 1 was a vigilance condition, Condition 2 involved listening to a story without an ending that had to be retold, and Condition 3 was an opportunity to rehearse the story mentally and construct an appropriate ending.

Told


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tell
  • () imp. & p. p. of Tell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
  • (3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (4) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (5) On the way back to Pristina later, the lawyer told me everything was fine.
  • (6) It had only been told on Wednesday that Hutchings could not be there.
  • (7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (8) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (9) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
  • (10) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
  • (11) The patients involved were told days after their transplants in November 2010 and each needed six cycles of chemotherapy.
  • (12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (13) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
  • (14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (15) Pearson had been informed after that bizarre incident that he was out of a job only to be told that he was back in work a few hours later .
  • (16) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (17) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (18) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (19) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
  • (20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.

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