telling

Example Sentences

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Or when they were telling me that my sister and I were being sent away to live with strangers.

From Literature

“I’ve been telling the others,” he said, “that I have been to the Mallons’.”

From Literature

What are AI executives telling their own kids about the jobs of the future?

From The Wall Street Journal

This, he said, resulted in his solicitor telling him not to speak to them.

From BBC

One south Yangon gas station was shut, with a handwritten notice telling customers fuel tankers were queueing to dock in the harbour and "petrol sales are suspended until they arrive".

From Barron's