telling

Example Sentences

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That didn’t stop movies from telling the story of their time anyway.

From Salon

On election night, Mamdani snapped back in his victory speech, telling the president "to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us".

From BBC

Last month, Instagram launched another new feature that lets users more directly control the videos their algorithm shows them by telling it what they do and don’t want to see.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each year, she said, officers drive the parade route, telling people to extinguish them.

From Los Angeles Times

The timing was especially telling: the new outflows appeared in the images while NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also detecting high-energy gamma rays, directly connecting the shock-powered radiation to those colliding streams.

From Science Daily