Sentence examples for telling from high-quality English sources.

• Too often, communicating is seen as “telling people.

• You can model this behaviour, by telling them stories.

• It was as if she were telling the story for the first time, telling it to fresh ears.

• Pompeo issued a public version of that warning, telling allies to steer clear of Chinese-built 5G networks.

• Also don’t avoid telling your child about racism because it’s scary.

• Actually, I need to check in — are you still telling that lie, or are you telling new lies?"

• Washington, he declared, has no business “telling you how to graze your cattle, cut your timber, mine your mines.”

• Story-telling can be used just as well to accompany evidence-based politics and arguments as it can be abused by populists.

Use telling in a sentence.

• If I'm telling the whole world I'm on holiday then I'm telling potential burglars that my house is empty too.

• “The narrative many plantations have been telling, that the city has been telling, is a simple one,” she said.

• I wonder how Alfred himself would view the damage 1,100 years of telling, retelling and half-telling have done to his legacy.

• "We are one of the only companies out there that is telling you, telling our consumers, 'Buy less stuff' versus 'Consume more.'

• "We are one of the only companies out there that is telling you, telling our consumers, 'Buy less stuff' versus 'Consume more.'

• "In those cases when I was surprised" by someone quitting, Zhuo said, "the person didn't feel comfortable enough telling me how they were feeling."

• "They were telling us, 'guys, don't put yourself in danger,' but we were telling them, 'you are our brothers and we want to keep you safe,'" Ahmed says.

• I was telling Zach that every time I talk to him he’s telling me about Kirkus, or he’s telling me about this blurb that we got from somebody famous.

telling sentence examples

• “Telling the stories of the people that are receiving the Freedom Dividend, telling the stories of people who are not getting the Freedom Dividend but whose lives would be changed if they did and also telling my story to a higher degree,” Mr.

• At one point in the video, roughly 40 minutes in, a man believed to be Parnas can be heard telling Trump to get rid of Yovanovitch, who was "left over from the Clinton administration" and was "basically walking around telling everybody, 'Wait, he's going to get impeached.

• Mike Roman, the CEO of 3M, responded to Trump's criticism on Friday, telling CNBC that it was "absurd" and that the company had "been telling the administration for days and days" about its efforts to bring protective equipment like the in-demand N95 respirator masks into the US.

• Thus, telling that someone is a bachelor by checking out his gender and marriage status doesn’t depend upon telling by asking his friends, but telling by asking his friends does depend upon telling by his gender and marriage status; and so we have an explanation of why “bachelors are unmarried males” seems analytic, but, says Fodor, without it’s actually being so (perhaps somewhat surprisingly, given his general “asymmetric dependence” theory of content, see his 1990b and cf.