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How to use teller in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Teller means a person who tells stories. Example: “"Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune teller.”

Examples of teller by meaning

nounA cashier at any place of business.

  • In the case discussed above, for example, the employee who stole money did so by waiting until another teller was on break, then logging on to that teller's register, ringing a “no sale,” and taking the cash.2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107
  • The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories
  • The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 60

More sentences with teller

  • "Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune teller.From the entry fortune teller
  • The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.From the entry count out
  • The touchpoints in retail banking include tellers and ATMs.From the entry touchpoint
  • During the bank robbery, every teller was told the same thing: "make with the cash if you want to stay alive."From the entry make with
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:interactive teller machine.From the entry interactive teller machine
  • Two vault tellers each possess one half of the combination to the vault.2015, Peter Gregory, CISSP Guide to Security Essentials, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry separation of duties
  • They erased the immediate and the distant for him, to attain teller attachment, omnicomprehensive company.1974, José Lezama Lima, Paradiso, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 323. From the entry omnicomprehensive
  • He is too good looking, according to many tellers.2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the…. From the entry truecel
  • "Sure, it will be a bit of craic," said Beth, "when's the last time a fortune teller came anywhere near here?"2015, Ben Ritchie, “A Bit of Craic”, in Phil Murphy, editor, Original Writing from Ireland’s Own: An Anthology of the Best Stories from…. From the entry craic
  • Judges often became the recipients of spontaneous unburdenings, which could happen only when the tellers already trusted their listeners' discretion.2013, Phyllis Ann Karr, At Amberleaf Fair, page 84. From the entry unburdening
  • A bruiser with a sandpapery voice, he was a reliable teller of corner-boy tales and, it seemed, a willing cog.2009 March 30, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry sandpapery
  • And so, out it tumbles and he has "stepped on my lines" and spoiled the joke for the teller.1986, Carol Addison Takacs, Enjoy Your Gifted Child, page 51. From the entry step on someone's lines
  • Mosler teller terminals are available in two models, each installed in an upsend (right) or downsend (left) configuration.1985, Sweet's Catalog File, Products for general building and renovation, volume 14, page 10. From the entry downsend
  • I am the teller of truths.2007, Holly Taylor, Crimson Fire: Book Two in the Dreamer's Cycle Series. From the entry wyrd
  • I'm picking up another strap of Toms tomorrow, hopefully crisp new - at least that what I asked the vault teller to order.2003 June 12, PossumTrot, “Treasury to Print More $2 Bills:)”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet), archived from the original on 22…. From the entry tom
  • When individuals type information into an automatic teller machine or enter a password to open a lock, they simply push a sequence of keys.2003, Janet E. Davidson, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, The Psychology of Problem Solving, Cambridge University Press, page 68. From the entry hunt-and-peck
  • Though not hearing the tellers' full stories in these passages, we are nonetheless reminded that neutrality was not a quality of storytelling.2002, Antoinette Clark Wire, Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers. From the entry pro-martyr
  • There are three temples in Tai Ping Shan, all crowded with joss sticks, tablets in memory of the dead, and fortune tellers.1984, “Exploring Hong Kong”, in Fodor's Hong Kong and Macau, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry Tai Ping Shan
  • He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.1957, Labour Law Journal, page 101. From the entry podder
  • Even then, human clerks and bank tellers would sometimes see the discrepancy, shrug and say “the computer says no” while denying me access to my accounts.2017 September 13, Chelsea Manning, “Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up for”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry the computer says no
  • I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”2008, Treasa O'Driscoll, Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey, →ISBN. From the entry repetitor
  • He learned medicine and surgery "from executioners, bathkeepers, gypsies, midwives, and fortune tellers and incidentally acquired an unusual knowledge of folk-medicine and a permanent taste for low company."1935 September 2, “Medicine: Chemotherapy”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jun 2014. From the entry folk medicine

Meaning of teller

  1. noun A person who tells stories.
  2. noun A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
  3. noun A cashier at any place of business.

Full definition of teller

Questions about teller in a sentence

How do you use teller in a sentence?
Teller is used as a noun. For example: “"Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune teller.”
What is a short sentence with teller?
“I am the teller of truths.”
What does teller mean?
Teller means a person who tells stories.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teller (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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