(a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(5) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(6) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
(7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(8) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(9) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(10) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(11) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(12) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(13) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(14) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
(15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(16) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(18) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(19) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
(20) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
Yelling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yell
Example Sentences:
(1) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(2) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(7) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
(8) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
(9) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
(11) "Yell remains our least preferred stock in the sector and has to be seen as a high-risk, speculative investment," said analysts at Numis.
(12) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
(13) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(14) During the manifestation, I heard an elder woman yell “Why are they murdering them?
(15) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(16) "Sometimes people do things to one another that don't make them feel good," Harris explains to a group of primary school-age children before prompting them, as an exercise, to yell "Go away!"
(17) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(18) Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters of the president-elect, Abd el-Fatah al-Sisi, plastered all over it.
(19) "What the hell," the old man yelled over the motor.
(20) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"