Example Sentences

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I am telling you to check what your portfolio assumes about inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

"I am telling you: the doors of Venezuela, the arms of the Venezuelan people, are open to those who want to return in this process of healing from hatred," she said in a televised address.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

But I am telling you, this is real.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

I reckon if anyone questions him he just stares them blank in the face as if to say 'just get on with it, and do what I am telling you'.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

Mimir’s head will whisper its knowledge of the future to Odin, just as I am telling it to you now.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman