Sentence examples for be telling of from inspiring English sources

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be telling of

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To count, reckon, or enumerate.

  • All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.

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He was drawn to collections of things: stacked, boxed, labelled, piled-up: "How [we] place things can be telling of how and what we are," he said.

IT'S invariably the little things, the unconsidered, off the cuff, in passing, unrehearsed things that snag our attention, and seem to be telling of the bigger things.

They did acknowledge, however, that Sunday's game should be telling of just how much the Giants have grown from seasons past.

This next match is a test for SKC and could be telling of the team's capacity as it heads into playoffs.

They may not be telling, of course, but their mordant metamovie seems to be as much a mystery to them as it does to the great American public.

"That could be telling of where the upper end of the market is going to go," Miller says.

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You will be told of this decision.

Mr Guterres does not need to be told, of course.

We are not to be told of the dread deeds.

Why can't we be told of the new evidence?

The patients also must be told of alternatives.

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