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Telling in sentence

2400 examples of Telling in a sentence

And I'm telling you, it's not even close.
I'm not telling a story, I'm making a case.
What it's telling us is that capitalism is going to become more social.
Baumfree claimed to hear the voice of God, telling her to leave Kingston, and share her holy message with others.
Nobody was telling them go left, go right, or giving them a predescribed path.
She then turns to the new mother, praising her, telling her she acted like an eagle warrior, a jaguar warrior.
And that woman said something more amazing, and then the next woman said something more amazing, and before I knew it, every woman was telling me I had to talk to somebody about their vagina because they had an amazing story, and I was sucked down the vagina trail.
Well, enough of me telling you about it.
Being able to show someone what you want to do, to illustrate and demonstrate and gesture, is so much more powerful than just telling them.
Growing up in North Philadelphia, I was surrounded by people in my family and friends who made photographs and used the family camera as a way of telling a story about life, about life of joy, about what it meant to become a family in North Philadelphia.
I wanted the family album to be energetic for me, a way of telling stories, and one day I happened upon a book in the Philadelphia Public Library called "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes.
Their stories tended to be different, black photographers, and they had a different narrative about black life during slavery, but it was also about family life, beauty and telling stories about community.
But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child."
She had not only read the book, but she had taken ownership of it and felt justified in telling me what to write in the sequel.
And instead of telling you, I'll just show you.
No, it's not, because he is not telling them what to do.
He is there 100 percent, but not commanding, not telling what to do.
Now it's about you, the player, telling the story.
You're telling the story.
And you're telling the story.
Let's talk about how the narrative of Africa is being told, and who is doing the telling.
And he was always telling me, "Pete, if you can't fly, you can run.
And he answered it by telling the story of the man who fell among thieves, and how religious authorities went the other way, and how their supporters in the congregation went the other way; but an unsuspecting, despised person came along, saw the man in need, provided oil and wine for his wounds, put him on his own transportation, and took him to the inn and asked the innkeeper, "Take care of him."
Now, let me close my comments by telling you that whenever I feel something very deeply, it usually takes the form of verse.
But Danny Miller, who is a very good anthropologist who is working on Filipina migrant women who leave their children back in the Philippines, was telling me about how much parenting is going on through Skype, and how much these mothers are engaged with their children through Skype.
In other words, all sorts of communication devices are telling us the stories of countries, whether or not the countries concerned want people to hear those stories.
Governments aren't very good at telling stories.
First thing that you do is you select a star in the night sky, if you're telling time at night.
We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
If they continue at this pace, there's absolutely no telling where they might wind up.
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