Sentence examples for telling first from inspiring English sources
Her telling first name and impressive pedigree notwithstanding, Sibyll Trelawney appears to be an untalented fake with no real foretelling skills to pass along to young witches and wizards.
The two-part answer is telling – first, that everything in nature is gendered, that all thoughts and actions are (on some level) driven by a reproductive urge, and no biogenetic impulse exists without a priori acknowledgment of attraction.
Upon which the young man, Xanthippus, thought himself so ill-used and disobliged that he openly reviled his father; telling first, by way of ridicule, stories about his conversations at home, and the discourses he had with the sophists and scholars that came to his house.
The story is real-life legend, though for all its telling (first, as front-page news) and retelling (in Piers Paul Read's book, "Alive" and, later, the movie starring Ethan Hawke), the ordeal remains as fascinating as it is mind boggling.
Mr. Rumsfeld arrived on Saturday, telling first Azerbaijan and then Armenia that the United States Congress appears within days of waiving sanctions imposed in 1992 under the Freedom Support Act in retaliation for a violent dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave within Azerbaijan that was home to a mostly ethnic Armenian population.
Davidson set up the "Animal House -style exchange by telling "First Man" star Foy that it's a show tradition.
The church is telling third-world women that they can't use contraceptives.
The Times report is one of several on Wednesday quoting women telling first-hand accounts of Trump's sexually aggressive behavior.
Another telling first-day activity is to have students think of ways that eating a piece of pepperoni pizza negatively impacts the environment.
And our Opinion and Personal sections launched earlier this year, telling first-person stories and commenting on the issues of the day.
