Telling example sentences

How do I know that you are telling the truth? Oh, don't be a fool.At that point, at the age of 22, I understood scholarly books should be written the way I had done — by telling the story of the research.In the experiment by Festinger and Carlsmith (see Box 2), students who got only one dollar for telling others that the experiment was interesting, discovered that they liked the experiment.All these are ways of telling children that they have specific roles to play when they grow up to be men and women.That is, on the basis of their behaviour (telling others that the experiment was interesting, for only a small amount of money), they concluded that their attitude towards the experiment was positive (“I would not have told a lie for this small amount of money, which means that the experiment was actually interesting”).The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji's Yamuna Paryatan (1857), which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of widows.It was just a friendly letter telling about the contest and telling Wanda she had won.According to his telling of history, before the British came to India, Hindu and Muslim despots ruled the country.But I'm telling you, that day they actually spoke! One coin said, “What are you thinking about? Those fresh, hot jalebis coming out of the kadhao in the shop over there, they're not coming out for nothing.In the process we focus only on those events that help us to give shape to the story we are telling.“What's this you've been telling?” Jansie said, next week.The men from our regiment wrote to others in the regiment telling them about this, and there was soon excitement in every regiment.By the twentieth century, the power of telling stories in simple language made Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) the most popular novelist in Bengal and probably in the rest of India.When a person describes herself/himself by telling her/his name (e.g., I am Sanjana or Karim), or her/ his qualities or characteristics (e.g., I am honest or hardworking person), or her/his potentialities or capabilities (e.g., I am a singer or dancer), or her/his beliefs (e.g., I am a believer in God or destiny), s/he is disclosing her/his personal identity.Why are girls then given dolls and boys cars? Toys become a way of telling children that they will have different futures when they become men and women.