telling

Example Sentences

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This, he said, resulted in his solicitor telling him not to speak to them.

From BBC

One south Yangon gas station was shut, with a handwritten notice telling customers fuel tankers were queueing to dock in the harbour and "petrol sales are suspended until they arrive".

From Barron's

"An alarm sounded in the middle of the night telling us not to stay near the windows," she said.

From Barron's

“The biggest general theme in the portfolio is the relative strength in financials” that are telling a story opposite to software, he said.

From MarketWatch

Gemini began telling Gavalas that since it couldn’t transfer itself to a body, the only way for them to be together was for him to become a digital being.

From The Wall Street Journal