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.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • The bombshell tell-all sold 1.1 million copies and became a New York Times bestseller within a week of its release.
    — James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 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
  • Much of that evidence emerged via Davis’ own tell-all memoir, which described the circumstances around the Shakur killing in detail.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Alex Van Halen hopes that those coming to his new memoir, Brothers, for a tell-all will be disappointed.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Oct. 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
  • Becoming Led Zeppelin feels like an antidote to Davis’s tell-all, for better or worse.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025

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