Sentence examples for looking for telling from inspiring English sources

As a young professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he pored over transcripts of children's speech, looking for telling patterns in the mistakes they made as they mastered verbs.

Ned Grabavoy was making little darts from deep and looking for telling balls behind, the build up play was faster if not crisper, and D.C. were beginning to look a little stretched.

Extra teams of specially trained security officers have been roaming airports looking for tells among the passengers — furtive glances or people who nervously open and close bags repeatedly.

The hypnotherapist looked for tells, taking notes of every spasm and twitch.

As in poker, he looked for tells — linemen who leaned forward on white knuckles for run plays, where teams slid protection on third-and-long, tendencies.

One by one they lift the men's fingers, looking for tell-tale signs of heavy gun usage.

They scanned the crowd, looking for tell-tale signs, including Secret Service agents.

At the moment we only have 57 scouts – but looking for tell-tale fire smoke at night is the most effective method.

Cooper and colleagues also documented climate fluctuations by looking for tell-tale signs of temperature change recorded in ice cores from Greenland.

Mr. Báez's death hit the journalism community particularly hard because he had mentored several younger reporters, pressing them to look for telling details in their images and their reports.

There were terrible scenes during the round-up: neighbours denouncing neighbours, children being separated from their families, men, women and children being stripped in public to look for telling scars, summary executions of people who tried to escape.