Sentence examples for given to telling from inspiring English sources

An endearingly glum Latvian (given to telling aides things like "it's all a disaster again") he has gained in confidence.

At home, Szegedi's father, who ran a small company in Miskolc, was given to telling anti-Semitic jokes, the same kind that Szegedi heard at school.

Which might seem risky for a lyricist routinely accused of pretentious blather, and a troubadour often given to telling more than he shows.

This comes just one day after she told the House Intelligence Committee, in a nine-hour closed-door session, that she was occasionally given to telling "white lies".

There he finds John Malkovich, as the Director, not just sick but disturbed as only that actor can be, given to telling Mr. Nolte's character that, with the space between atoms, they're all sitting on nothing.

She is the product of a semi-aristocratic family – her father, Beverley, is a failed novelist and writer of supernatural short stories on the brink of nervous collapse after serving in the Great War; her mother, Wilfreda, is a distant, rather haughty presence much given to telling people not to make a fuss and get on with things.

I remember looking at him when he would say that and rolling my eyes -- what I would give to tell him, he was so very right... again.

Smiling, tossing the hair, and exposing the neck are all basic codes women give to tell a guy they're into them.

I am "morally ambiguous" and given to not telling the truth.

She requested that a message be given to Fekens: "Tell him bonjour, bonsoir.

He is impishly given to truth-telling even unto self-sabotage.