Sentence examples for a telling name from inspiring English sources

PAGE 27 CHANGING FACE OF AIDS They call themselves the Divas, a telling name for this group of African-American and Hispanic women over 50 who are H.I.V. positive.

In his first speech as secretary of state for work and pensions, in 2008, James Purnell underlined the significance of this move: "My title … embodies an ideological break with the past... What a telling name: security as something handed down; welfare as bureaucratic transfer; people as recipients of funds … The new title tells a wholly different story.

As a matter of fact, Ms Duffy (what a telling name), expressed a very narrow-minded view of her little bigoted world.

Barbados is widely acknowledged to be the birthplace of rum – although back then the tipple had a more telling name.

A group of people were introduced to a woman, and told her name was Mrs. Baker.

Repeat this until you find a page that tells the name of the millipede.

Facebook's greeting says to a human, "I was told your name, and told it was your birthday, and I didn't do nothing".

Then, a friend told her, her name had been written on "a big long bullet".

4. "A source told me the name of the man you arrested.

Almost every item has a story to tell or a name to drop.

All night they talked, a great telling of names and antics.