How to Use tell-all in a Sentence

tell-all

noun
  • What did Capote write about the Swans in his tell-all book?
    Haley Van Horn, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Whose new tell-alls will the stories be ripped from the pages of this time?
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Now, in her own words, here is what stood out from Spears’s tell-all.
    Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The story could be a chapter in an industry tell-all book.
    Marcus K. Dowling, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For some months now, there have been claims that Porter wrote a tell-all book before her tragic passing.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The clue is right there in the title: sold as a brutally honest tell-all, the book is a crafty performance.
    Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The clue is right there in the title: sold as a brutally honest tell-all, the book is a crafty performance.
    Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There's no set release date, but the book will be a tell-all about her sobriety journey.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 6 July 2023
  • Those perceptions have changed and there’s no hint of a tell-all memoir or Netflix series in the works.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Without the perspective of history, the allure of the White House tell-all is the allure of the tell-all itself: voyeurism.
    Alexander Sorondo, Vox, 31 July 2024
  • Beth blames the fact that her childhood wasn’t as brutal as some of the authors who wrote more successful tell-alls.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Hoffs herself is writing the script, but don’t expect any tell-all memoirs from her.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The ghostwriter for Prince Harry's tell-all memoir, Spare, is clearing the record.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • Harry has also detailed rifts with his father and his brother, Prince William (the heir to the throne), in his tell-all memoir Spare.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
  • With a dishy tell-all that has left her now twice humiliated?
    Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There was one more secret Amanda had been keeping from Razvan, even while filming the tell-all.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Ed and Jovi shook hands, as Yara stepped in to clarify their tell-all interaction.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The tell-all book’s upcoming arrival in bookstores and on Amazon comes after a bit of a delay.
    Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Prime at the table became Deion on the witness stand, the one from the tell-all books and magazine stories, usually out of Texas, where bridges had been burned.
    Sean Keeler, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
  • During Sunday night's tell-all, Debbie encouraged Julien to take a good look at Jen.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • But her daughter Christine's tell-all memoir of shocking child abuse, Mommie Dearest, threw the doors open on the issue in 1978.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
  • In 2022, Jackson addressed the Super Bowl incident in a tell-all documentary of her own for the first time.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
  • To make matters worse for Gino, Daisy — one of the dancers — stopped by the tell-all virtually to give details about his behavior.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The unauthorized tell-all has a long and (sometimes in)distinguished history, but there can’t have been many like this scathing look inside the culture at the world’s biggest hedge fund.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Some are gossipy tell-all trash; some are dry, academic histories of the medium.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Manigault-Newman served as a Trump aide but left his White House amid acrimony and wrote her own tell-all memoir.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
  • According to a new tell-all book by the writer Michael Wolff, Murdoch told friends in 2022 that the lawsuit would likely cost Fox fifty million dollars.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Four months after Holly moved back to America, the pair had barely spoken in two or three weeks before the tell-all taping.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Oscars slap, however, is only a 14-page chapter in Pinkett Smith’s tell-all memoir.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • At the tell-all, Yohan saw a clip from earlier in the season featuring Daniele airing the couple's dirty laundry out of frustration.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 28 May 2023

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