Sentence examples for was telling for from inspiring English sources

The exchange was telling for two reasons.

But the absence was telling: for Ralston, examining the lesson of his severed limb seems to have become a life's work.

We stopped to listen to a young evangelist at the base of Benjamin Franklin's bird-spattered statue in City Hall Park, who was telling, for perhaps the hundredth time that day, the story of Lazarus & pointing out its modern applications.

It was telling, for instance, that Vice President Dick Cheney continued to receive many hundreds of thousands of dollars from Halliburton, the oil company he had once mismanaged, while he was in office and running the administration's industry-friendly energy policy.

By Ernest LaFrance and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, August 20 , 1938P. 7 We stopped to listen to a young evangelist at the base of Benjamin Franklin's bird-spattered statue in City Hall Park, who was telling, for perhaps the hundredth time that day, the story of Lazarus & pointing out its modern applications.

That Arsenal's draw at Newcastle should come immediately after the close of yet another quiet transfer window for the club was telling, for even Wenger's most ardent backers would express puzzlement at the Frenchman's continuing refusal to add hardened experience and nous to a team that clearly require such characteristics.

But my mother was told "for the present you had better leave the buttons off".

Compact and round, she was told for years that she would never become a dancer.

I was told for one that they wanted someone more 'voluptuous'voluptuous

I just did what I was told for the most part.

I was told for years that my activities had saved lives and prevented attacks".