Telling in example sentence

But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction.

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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.

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