Telling in example sentence

I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own, so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything, appeasing ignorance with my silence, unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.

More example sentences with word telling

Directing – telling people exactly how to do something – is micromanaging when they can do it themselves.

And I began the speech by telling them the story of what had just happened the day before in Nashville.

Come to think of it, knowing when you're wrong without a teacher, or your mother, telling you, is a very hard problem.

So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.

All example sentences