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Example sentences for "telling what"

  • Second, a proposition may be explained by telling what it is not.

  • Last, a thing may be explained by telling what it is like, or what it is not like.

  • At times this is as valuable as telling what it is.

  • Describe a person you do not like, by telling what he is not.

  • If he asked me that figure there's no telling what I'd say to him," Bellshaw answered.

  • There was no telling what sort of desperate, hunted character had found his way there, so he handled his revolver as he went in.

  • I think he will win, but if you don't lay Bellshaw a fair sum, there's no telling what he'll do.

  • There's no telling what kind of a gang we may run into.

  • No telling what'll come of it if you shoot.

  • There is no telling what danger we may encounter on the plain after nightfall.

  • He replied, telling what he was but not who he was; he felt a twinge of disappointment because she did not venture to probe into his identity.

  • There was no telling what he would undertake nor what damage might be wrought by his interference.

  • I do not dare anger him, for there is no telling what he might do.

  • I assure you there is no telling what a girl like Inza Burrage might do.

  • If he fancied you had deceived him, there is no telling what he might take it into his head to do.

  • But no telling what a young animal like that may develop into.

  • In being one who can be telling everything she is telling that she is telling what she is telling.

  • She is telling what she is telling and telling that she is telling that thing as she would be telling that thing if she were sweetly telling that thing.

  • If saying that being is existing is meaning that feeling is existing, then talking when talking is happening is telling what is being told by telling.

  • When a man's in the state he was, there's no telling what he might do on the spur of the moment.

  • It is hardly startling enough yet," Dick replied, "but there's no telling what it may lead to.

  • Cloudy to-day, fine to-morrow; there's no telling what changes to expect in such a blessed climate as ours.

  • We have a way of telling what we will have for our next meal, getting up a bill of fare that would beat the St. Charles Hotel.

  • Colonel Ketcham wrote them a nice letter, telling what a good soldier John had been, and how he sympathized with them in losing him.

  • Why when a chap gets out of his mind there is no telling what he'll do, or where he'll go.

  • If he remains here there is no telling what he will do next.

  • Why, if he isn't right in his mind there is no telling what he'll do next!

  • This language of suggestion appears when it shows an object by indicating how it is like something else; by telling what we feel when we see the object; and by telling what actions of the person or object make it hateful or charming.

  • During the story-telling what is the part the child has to play?

  • No, and unless he's more careful than you were there's no telling what mischief he may have got into.

  • Well, Jack, there's no telling what I may be driven into.

  • Diamond caught up the weapon the Southerner had flung down, muttering: "There's no telling what he may try to do next.

  • No telling what we'll be able to find out and do here.

  • No telling what we may have to do before the night's over, you know.

  • No telling what's going to come up before the night's over, either, Tom.

  • As long as he is at large there is no telling what he will do.

  • He's a strange fellow, Nat, and there is no telling what he will do.

  • There is no telling what sort of a person he is.

  • There is no telling what a fellow of Link's stamp might do.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telling what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    children will; comparatively shallow; good father; great fault; her part; higher price; light breeze from the; looking woman; lower down; more will; much afraid; never intended; pounder carronades; set aside; square form; strong sulphuric; telling fortunes; telling her; telling him; telling himself; telling stories; telling them; telling what; telling you; three hundred and twenty; waited for