- present participle of tell.
telling
Example Sentences
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"I was like, 'Now you're telling me?'" he says.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
Put plainly, Qualcomm is telling Wall Street that its nonhandset business alone will approach the size of the entire company today, which brought in about $44 billion in fiscal 2025.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
Guggenheim’s Siegel points to sales per store as one of the most telling factors.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
"But now, just in the last 75 years or so, we have the possibility of telling that story, also, through what the project has found archaeologically."
From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026
As he juggled, he was telling everyone about how he had ridden Marlene all the way from Dresden.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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