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Example sentences for: telling

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Through such strategies and telling adaptations of quotations like “All whites are created equal,” “One small step for a white, one giant step for whitekind” Hofstaedter's short piece becomes a cutting revelation of just how deep-seated are not only sexist but racial prejudices in language.
The fossil record reveals the disappearance of pollen during previous ones, replaced by an abundance of fungus spores, telling us of a world of devastated forests rotting away.
But if you're telling the truth, why does it matter that your message is divisive?
A reader's letter to the WP notices something telling in a previous Post story about "deadwood" federal employees.
It is Widdicombe who eventually runs the abortion underground in pre- Roe Missouri, telling women where they can find somebody relatively clean and relatively safe to terminate their pregnancies and sometimes smuggling them into her own spare bedroom afterward to suffer the aftereffects of the operations in clenched-teeth pain.