How To Use Telling In A Sentence

But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
It's a bit like telling ghost stories.
When Wilbraham was telling me this part of Ids story he seemed to be enveloped -- "enveloped" is the word that best conveys my own experience of him -- by some quite radiant happiness. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
Don't break in when he is telling the story.

At first, when their cops out there started telling me things, I didn't want to know. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching one's grandmother how to suck eggs.
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
What could be more straightforward than telling a person he is suspected of a crime?
Do you think someone's behavior may be telling you about a menstrual disorder?
The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
But his storytelling skills show up elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
No days off and telling the world his players were hopeless after another hiding. The Sun
I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
Suddenly they upped and moved, telling neighbours that they were emigrating to the US.
And yet, we have a whole bunch of people, serious, accomplished scientists, telling us that the seas will rise in some places while deserts will be created in others.
It's telling the truth instead of political pabulum.
Bands, dancing and Gurkha storytelling will also feature, while the more energetic visitors can have a go at an Army climbing wall or aerial ropeway.
Timing is everything when it comes to telling that skateboarding babe you're majorly crushing on him.
‘It is a fact that we have people in other firms trying to poach my staff telling them not to trust the big employer,’ he said.
But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
I don't need their future stepmother telling me that they are excited about my wedding.
Oh bravissimo in chorus, and he would have danced out into the middle of the room before us all, had not Fortunata whispered in his ear, telling him, I suppose, that such low buffoonery was not in keeping with his dignity. Satyricon
Bit like now I suppose, sruggling in the half light trying to overcome an insurmountable problem while some treacly sod is in the background telling you how to go about it without having to demonstrate. You See The Trouble With Me « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Note the telling musical score, anticipating events, cueing the audience as to when to be scared, assuming we cannot figure that out ourselves.
The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
After many repetitions, the moment comes when the telling of the trauma story no longer arouses quite such intense feeling. Trauma and Recovery
Instead, there is always freshness and a delight in storytelling all too often absent from weighty academic history.
Try telling that to folk who bought into the bullion fad five years ago and have lost a third of their money since then. Times, Sunday Times
It was a celebration of community through shared storytelling and of the human ability to create art.
Adjoining the visitors shop is Hartlepool Museum, which is stuffed full of artefacts telling the story of the town, particularly its maritime heritage.
If Ratzinger wants to stay in Italy and scare school kids by telling them God is watching when they French kiss or masturbate, that is his sexual silliness. Joe Cutbirth: The Pope Can't Get Away With This
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The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription. Times, Sunday Times
‘I must have misspoke,’ Bartlett, now White House communications director, was quoted as telling the Globe in a recent interview.
I could hear my little one screaming and then heard Ryan telling him to calm down and get mummy some flannels.
Without telling anyone, she would work out and kick her bod into shape, even if it meant sneaking in workouts before or after work.
That delights the band's publicist who has been telling us that this is a return to the era when album launches were hyper-expensive, orgiastic affairs that lasted all day and are still remembered.
Unfortunately, academic research is not always about telling the truth.
They look at it as a fertile ground for imagination and storytelling. Times, Sunday Times
As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling. TIME OF THE WOLF
Miliband decided to risk serious barracking by telling the TUC he could not support the strikes, even though industrial action was sometimes a necessary last resort. Ed Miliband endures rough ride at TUC after criticism of pension strike action
Don't keep telling yourself that a particular situation is bound to make you blush. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
Bush and Rummy have been telling us it’s a war against terror – are they lying to us again anvil? Think Progress » New Report: Rumsfeld ‘Personally Involved’ In Torture Allegations at Gitmo
(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
Beware of telling any one of our existence; or we must fly this land.
Instead of standing up to them and telling them to stick it, I just ended up juggling a complex number of lies.
Mr McGrath said a storytelling session would be conducted by Geraldton Regional Library staff to entertain children.
The telling factor could be if the disease gets into pig herds.
I think the children and others such and I will engage in retelling the story of Frodo and Sam. Unnatural Events « Unknowing
Another scam involves a fraudster calling a bank and informing them that a company's contact details have changed, and then telling the company that the bank's details have changed.
Every morning I'd check my pigeonhole in case the letter had finally arrived telling me that a distant relative had died and I was now the heir to a title and a vast estate.
My usual approach to storytelling is to focus on several different characters or groups of characters that gradually come together in the course of the story. An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children
There is also the highly suggestive definitation of cartomancy - literally from the French carte card + mancie -mancy: fortune-telling by the use of playing cards. Archive 2008-02-01
how can I stop my child from telling stories?
That went on forever, me telling him to hang on, trying to stanch the blood. AFTERMATH
Why is he telling us that his jillions of readers have a question?
Whatever they were telling her, Dakota was gasping and laughing, hands to her mouth. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
I have a suspicion that she is not telling me the truth.
Behind her she could hear Jack calmly telling everyone to go and shower and change and come back in full barrier gear.
Some cops raced along the street, telling householders to stay inside. The Sun
He attaches a slightly more elaborate PDF document telling me what's wrong with the government's plans.
This is one guy who has managed to get shedloads of money out of his followers by that old and trusted trick of telling them the world's going to end, so they won't need all those possessions and cash that'll bar them entry into heaven.
To the critics of his approach, Mr Kennedy is in the habit of retelling an involved Scottish anecdote about a whale getting itself beached.
I went to take my towel off the clothes line in the backyard and found him sitting on top of the fence telling Janet about what happened.
Returned home he relates the incident, and only through his mother's intercession escapes a thrashing from his honest father, for telling a lie.
Collider called the reshoots "extensive," while FOX downplayed them, saying that the reshoots were always planned and telling Today on ReelzChannel - Videos
So, in essence is Beck is telling us is that Playboy = good, Playgirl = Bad. Think Progress » Glenn Beck welcomes Scott Brown to Washington: ‘This one could end with a dead intern.’
THE figures for avoidable deaths look shocking, but is it telling the whole story? The Sun
Would you mind telling me what you were doing on the afternoon of Friday the 13th of March?
The scrum-half made several telling breaks to earn the Man-of-the-Match award.
Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting.
But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
But more than simply a stiff costume drama in space suits, the miniseries is smart in both its telling and its look.
Yet it still survives as a flowery way of telling your spouse that there's more than one way of peeling spuds. Times, Sunday Times
In the most telling moment the whole lot balance on elbows and heads, each clapping his feet together like trained seals. Times, Sunday Times
The ‘Tipton three’ may be telling a pack of lies, but this affair is so murky and so many backs are being covered that it is very difficult to form any kind of coherent judgement.
Jeez, don't yell at me - I'm just telling you what she said!
These guys are so funny and laid back on stage, making jokes, telling stories, having a good time.
I do is to prevent mischeff; and seeing your Honner has so much patience, which younge master has not; so am not affeard of telling your Honner any thing whatsomever. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
Tellingly, commercial shipping appears not to receive the same degree of attention or scrutiny.
Now my brother was telling me we'd grown up within spitting distance of a nuclear dump.
It was evident to me that he was not telling the truth.
That was a storytelling device. It was the ultimate frame - and television newspeople the ultimate narrators.
She's telling me to acknowledge the sister and she's also bringing up the baby of the family.
While the idea of people telling their stories is attractive in theory, in practice the courts are overburdened as it is.
Consider telling someone who is not a nagger or blamer.
His approach involves massive research combined with a matter-of-fact storytelling style. Times, Sunday Times
He had a talent for telling blatant lies with angelic suavity. The Times Literary Supplement
Initially, I agreed and everything was going great until she freaked out on me and started telling me that she was still in love with me.
Upton had just been telling Eric the splendid phrase, "anerhithmon gelasma ponton", which he had stumbled upon in an Aeschylus lesson that morning, and they were trying which would hit on the best rendering of it. Eric, or Little by Little
I tried to find a tactful way of telling her the truth.
The Toronto art-rockers have a tendency to go for the extreme, whether it is a lavishly orchestrated children's record or a rock opus telling the story of the Group
I believe what you are calling a smirk is where his teleprompter is telling him to "SMILE" -- that's so we, and he, know that he told us a joke, and also to dispel that nasty rumor going around about his bad temper. McCain Jokes About Obama's Overseas Trip And Press Coverage
The film is wrapped in a endless display of celebratory visual storytelling.
Of course, the all-important marketing skill was tellingly lacking in Murthy.
My emotions manage to squeeze a few tears past the imposed strictures of my society, but most of my grief only pounds wrathfully against generations of parents telling sons that ‘big boys don't cry.’
Compare the following three texts — the previously-mentioned Passio sancti Pelagii by Hroswitha; Filius Getronis, a twelfth-century play of St. Nicholas from St. - Benoit-sur-Loire; and the tale of the snow child (a fabliau and several other retellings throughout the period). back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Telling your boss may put him in an embarrassing situation. Times, Sunday Times
He wrote letters to congressmen telling them that something awful and ‘bloody’ had occurred.
It's telling that car alarms have become mere annoyances rather than effective tools to prevent crime.
The process of kinesic analysis in interviewing and interrogation is first to establish a baselinea catalog of behaviors that subjects exhibit when telling the truth: Where do they put their hands, where do they look and how often, do they swallow or clear their throats often, do they lace their speech with Uhm, do they tap their feet, do they slouch or sit forward, do they hesitate before answering? Roadside Crosses
The chief constable herself has been touring the county telling people their police have been underfunded for years and the only way forward is more cash.
At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness. Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past
It would be like a mate in the pub telling you he'd have bought you a pint had you been here 30 seconds ago!
Caitlin O’Toole at News. com.au outlines ten things bosses hate about employees, from big-picture errors like failing to meet deadlines to personal problems such as smelling bad (telling a staff member they reek is never a fun meeting). Why your boss doesn’t like you | Lifehacker Australia
Telling them they have been lied to and mistreated is to ask them to frag their leaders; you are traitors to them and their leaders for engaging in this irresponsible speech.
There may be fiddle playing, singing, guitar playing, Irish dancing, poetry reading, lie-telling and leg-pulling.
Frequent image posting is a very rare phenomenon here (that is, if someone said "posts lots of images", I'd have thought, until now, "breezeway", whereas when you say "telling people to shut up", I think ... oh, so many people. How Now Brownpau
Unusual theatre from around the world including workshops on puppetry and storytelling with the body. Times, Sunday Times
The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription. Times, Sunday Times
Across the aisle from me a young boy is telling his mother that he doesn't like it.
She continued, with great energy, telling a story about how five people, booked in by the concierge of the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat, never arrived.
Your excursion is telling you two are your own persons and have done what brings a smile to your faces when you now think of Mexico. Scared of Mexico
Its great virtue is that it does not flower, making its silver, filigree foliage effect particularly clean and telling. Times, Sunday Times
So I started up Windows Media Player and, bang, the virus warnings started again, each time telling me the darn thing had been deleted.
His dilemma rests in the choice between telling a lie and losing his chance to marry the woman he loves.
To enter, write telling us why you think that special person deserves recognition. The Sun
He also confiscates one of the two boxes of matches I have, telling me that only one box is allowed, although later I find a matchbook lost in the folds of my purse.
And you said repeatedly that claims like "hypoallergenic" and "natural" mean absolutely nothing and that it's up to consumers to figure out, you know, what's-whether the companies-what the companies is telling them is true. Democracy Now!
After much yardage of "feel-good" waffle, EurActive gets down to brass tacks on regulatory issues, telling us that Witney, "…does not believe a change of the overall situation for European defence procurement can be achieved with 'dirigiste' measures from Brussels that members states are not comfortable with. White man speak with forked tongue
There'd be no telling how John would react to such news as this.
And surely there is a less intrusive way of telling the world what a loving husband she has? The Sun
Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?
At least one top NBA scout has been telling college underclassmen who might be borderline first-round picks this June that it's better to wait for the 2005 draft.
SBS Interview Series: Nick Lyle (“One Last Look”) (Nick Lyle is the author of “One Last Look,” one of the selections for the first issue of Survival By Storytelling Magazine.) SBS Interview Series: Nick Lyle (“One Last Look”) « Survival By Storytelling Magazine
In his first film, it almost did - for he was telling a heart-warming, unselfconscious story.
He was good-tempered with her, only occasionally losing patience, telling her not to be a fool. THE GOLDEN LION
This is what we call a lose / lose situation, because the cops will either have no sense of humor and arrest you for public intoxication, or they will try to fuck with you and snicker amongst themselves while telling you to give it your best shot. Pointlessbanter.net
And surely there is a less intrusive way of telling the world what a loving husband she has? The Sun
I was aghast, and stopped her, telling her that every single one of those pills contraindicates my Tegretol. Monkeyfister
Hadn't he been telling himself it was time to move on while he was still young enough to relocate ? EVERVILLE
She insisted on telling me every single detail of what they did to her in hospital.
Filmed once before with Stacy Keach, The Killer Inside Me is perhaps Thompson's best known book, telling the story of a seemingly innocuous smalltown sheriff who hides a psychopathic secret.
For the aficionados, there are ways of telling the cars apart.
He livened up the party by telling a joke.
Physicians must learn to engage in gentle but direct truth-telling in the dispensation of their duty to patients who depend on them for accurate yet compassionate descriptions of their condition.
These days children do not have grandparents telling them folklore and stories from epics.
This is like telling the story of a dream by feigning sleep.
A fortune-teller had given Declan the charm, telling him to keep it close to his heart for luck. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Colin went on to dumbfound the poor copper telling him that he (Colin) was on the relevant council committee and he knew about these things. A tribute to Colin Rosenstiel
A telling example is the narrative cycle painted on a cassone, attributed to Filippino Lippi (1457 – 1504), probably commissioned by wealthy Florentine Jews. Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
You can't scare me into telling you anything.
When he received a docket earlier this year telling him he had a package to pick up at the Post Office, he thought it was probably some parts for his refrigerator.
The best kind of storytelling is when writers turn a mirror on ourselves, and that mirror shows us a lot of conflict. Archive 2006-07-01
Hunter is unflinching in her commitment to telling a persuasive story, but she is a romantic too.
He would be up on his feet thumping, and telling us that repeal was the option.
You keep telling parents that they lack confidence and bombard them with often contradictory advice. Times, Sunday Times
I would want a book from the gifter because it will last and it doesnt have to be expensive BUT the most important thing to me would be the inscription to the baby and then getting to read that book to the baby and then the toddler and then the child and always telling them the story of how the book came to them. Baby Shower Q: “In lieu of a card, bring a book” WTF!? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News
So I ended up telling the police he was harassing me. The Sun
These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
The teacher keeps telling the pupils to work harder but her words go in one ear and out the other.
Mrs Obama and Mrs. Biden both said military families are apriority to them, maybe we should send letters to their offices telling them how that would affect our families. A Policy Under Review - SpouseBUZZ
Falling at the feet of Jesus in front of a crowd is a telling gesture signifying social inferiority.
But politically, the rebellion in the Cabinet is a serious and telling blow.
There was a shade of meanness in her speech, and she spoke it so emphatically that for a moment he was not sure if she was telling the truth.
Past histories are filled out with a telling sentence or paragraph. Times, Sunday Times
His remarks about her weight provoked her into telling him to shut up.
But she recently received correspondence telling her she had a half-sister in Australia.
Westgate says that she came into the company, and scolded at and called her husband, whereupon I, took her husband's part, telling her it was an unbeseeming thing for her to come after him to the tavern, and rail after that rate. History of American Women
Homeowners, watching the value of their flats tumble, complain that Tung flip-flopped on his housing policy - without telling the public.
York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva. Latest Articles
We need to change the very words we use to analyze writing so that we can wash this stigmatism out of our collective consciousnesses and allow writers to expand their 'toolkit' and readers to explore more methods of storytelling. So It Goes: Thoughts on the Cassandra Ghetto
Hitherto, male storytelling took place in the public space and was associated with the narration of epics or factual events, current or past.
He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion.
He then reveals his abilitie to her and we leave them with him telling her to pick a number between one and a million. Watching Heroes » 2007 » January
I am sick of my mom telling me how rotten I am and sick of the courts ordering me to places like this.
The duo also made telling contributions to the two second-half tries. Times, Sunday Times
In ‘The Kid,’ the poet unveils the hidden core beneath a comfortable mask, telling about how the subject talks candidly about his father ‘sometimes when we ain't talking about baseball.’
The kid who complained [last year] was then singled out for the rest of last year by fellow teammates as a 'narc' and was punched by other teammates for telling his parent," one of the sources said. Buffalo Pundit
She situates her storytelling within a specifically literary context, and develops a double-voiced message, directed toward both a white audience and the black community.
He held an audience of 16-year-olds spellbound, and afterwards stayed up with us until the small hours telling stories. The Sun
Instead firms are cutting the money they put into pension funds and telling workers to gamble their savings on the stockmarket through private schemes.
I can see that people are going to email me telling me that I just don't get it.
‘The perfect acoustics in the Heritage Centre make it the ideal venue for storytelling, music and song,’ says Ms Byrne.
Yes, and in telling about it I'll show my naive ignorance: 4, 5, 6 (?) years ago on a vacation through much of New England, we stopped at a bookstore and I noticed a "local" author shelf with some mass market pbs with "woodcut" - style black and red covers depicting Sleepy-Hollow-like scenes. A Touch of Genius
Rather than being schematic, it is telling a story through its characters.
Lauren relates her story in a simple time sequence and gives telling details which make the narration gripping.
Story-telling has acquired the status of an art form.
It took a lot of persistence and perseverance and a lot of great people around me telling me that I could do it and I could get there.
The relationship between land, landscape, and technological progress has always been a dominant motif in the American experience and its telling.
Although there are ways of telling it apart from the A3, the whole remains discreet. Times, Sunday Times
No one had read the "neat little signs" around the ship telling people how to put them on. Christianity Today
Aline's insight underlined my conviction on holiday that this was one tale not for retelling.
My computer is, at this very moment, giving those two words angry red underlines telling me that the words don't exist.
I started to walk away from him while fighting my tears and frustration, telling myself to be strong.
They won't listen, so don't waste your breath telling them.
You will not soften us up by telling us the problems.
Our spirits, however, were much cheered by hearing that the sultan had received a letter from a seyyid at Meshed (probably the nice one who had been in India and had leprosy in his legs), telling him how very badly the sultan of Hagarein had behaved about us. Southern Arabia
Telling characters apart is made more difficult by the fact that Shepherd sketches a number of individuals with only a few strokes, concentrating his character-building skills on Sasha and the people immediately surrounding her. REVIEW: Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel (Book One) by Joel Shepherd
Goblin craned his neck up to see if Spiderman was telling the truth, but within seconds he found himself staring at the ground. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum
Tellingly, it was not any front-rank spokesperson but Mr Miliband's right-hand man Lord Wood who teed up the speech in a Guardian comment piece. Labour party: search for consistency | Editorial
In his first film, it almost did - for he was telling a heart-warming, unselfconscious story.
His funny stories begin to pall on his listeners after the second time of telling.
Trained as a doorman to national standards, he is teaching the actors restraining techniques and telling clubland anecdotes to familiarise them with a bouncer's world.
Did not appear as relaxed as in the first debate, though he remains the most physically vigorous of the three, and won points by telling of his predebate morning jog with an Afghan vet. The Second Debate: Experts' Scorecard
One is from his accountant, telling him that his years of tax exile are over. Times, Sunday Times
For a long time, the Alexander polynomial was one of the few tools topologists had for telling knots apart.

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