telling

Example Sentences

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"I'm not going to tell you everything I'm telling them, but the Strait is the knot of this crisis and it needs to be unknotted. This is costing us all," he told me.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Per the BBC, oil and gas tanker companies aren’t rushing to run through the strait, telling the broadcaster that the news “doesn’t change anything.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Altman had just declared a so-called code red at OpenAI, telling staff to pause other projects and spend their time improving ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

It would simply be a copy, made to make money instead of telling a story.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

‘You said he should know. Now I’m telling him.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver