Enter
Enter verb - To go or come in or into.
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When the SWAT team is about to enter the elevator, the team leader makes a "pull down" gesture to the rest of the team to tell them to enter the elevator and pull open the hatch in the ceiling.
Source: Hand Signals -
Whatever you say to him now, he will tell you later, when you enter the "green mist" again.
Source: Temporal Paradox -
Most of the conversation is in English, but when the two policemen first enter the introductions are in Hungarian, with Werdegast having to tell them that the Allisons are Americans.
Source: Film / The Black Cat
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