How to Use tell-all in a Sentence

tell-all

noun
  • 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
  • There’s an audience for that part of a tell-all.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Rinna is clear that this isn’t a Housewives tell-all.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Hulu gave a hint that’s promising for the series’ first tell-all episode.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 20 May 2025
  • With a dishy tell-all that has left her now twice humiliated?
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This is not a titillating tell-all, and all the better for it.
    — Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Hoffs herself is writing the script, but don’t expect any tell-all memoirs from her.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And your best people leave—not always with a scandal or a tell-all blog post, but in quiet protest.
    — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • 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
  • Harry and Netflix know what will bring in the big bucks, and that is another tell-all.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Wynn-Williams’ book does possess a feature common to tell-all memoirs.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The tell-all follows her life at a time when men dominated the legal system.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Including, perhaps, his own tell-all memoir?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Some are gossipy tell-all trash; some are dry, academic histories of the medium.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • That was far from the only shocking revelation during the tell-all.
    — Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The 22-year-old's tell-all memoir is set to release in October.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Another victim has come forward with a tell-all memoir about his abuse, and the true crime-hungry are enthralled.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Not long after the interview, the star athlete made a tell-all TikTok about her boob job.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Ed and Jovi shook hands, as Yara stepped in to clarify their tell-all interaction.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • And though the show positions itself as a tell-all, Guinness beer itself gets through without much of a stain.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This news broke just hours after Kross gave a tell-all interview to Ariel Helwani.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Sources cite that Andrew might make the same move as Harry by publishing his very own tell-all memoir.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There was one more secret Amanda had been keeping from Razvan, even while filming the tell-all.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The tell-all book’s upcoming arrival in bookstores and on Amazon comes after a bit of a delay.
    — Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • One more tell-all interview, and the erasure accelerates.
    — Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In this tell-all book, Ruby’s daughter Shari writes of growing up in the household and forging her own path forward.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025

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