- present participle of tell.
telling
Example Sentences
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Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi confirmed the purchase, telling The New York Times that Cuomo intends to sell the vacant lots included in the acquisition while using the residence as a summer home.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Management was telling us what they wanted us to hear,” she told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But Yap Lay Sheng, a senior human rights specialist with Fortify Rights, told AFP: "There's no telling how the regime would treat returnees."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
But until I read its headline writers telling me that Red Sanders’ 1949 beginning with four wins while I was at Fairfax High was before the “modern era,” I hadn’t understood that I’m ancient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Aunt Tess looks like she wants to say something more to me, but I can’t stand the idea of lectures, or of someone else telling me how I should or shouldn’t feel about France.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
