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  1. Story-tellingadjective

    being accustomed to tell stories

  2. Story-tellingnoun

    the act or practice of telling stories

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of story-telling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of story-telling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of story-telling in a Sentence

  1. Paige Braddock:

    I think a little bit of our challenge is introducing fans to Snoopy who maybe don't know Snoopy, but once they discover Snoopy, there are universal truths in the comic that I think appeal to every generation ... because the comic is not just about humor it's about relationships, it's about failures, it's about joy, it really runs the whole range of human emotion and story telling.

  2. J. R. R. Tolkien:

    His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

  3. Rachel Weisz:

    It's very sad that such an event as tonight has to happen, but we do need to draw attention to women in film, we're just very disproportionately represented in terms of directors and writers - people in charge of the story-telling. So we just need more films from women's point of view.

  4. Utah John Krasinski:

    I promised myself I wanted to do a movie that would be singular to my story telling, but if I did it, it would have to be something that I would have a take on that no one else would have, so I was really proud of this job, but to me it was all about the story. I think Jim [Strouse] wrote a really realistic and a very honest take on what family is… He writes real honest people and real honest situations that you have to live through, and that’s what life is. Life isn't simple and predictable; it’s actually very messy.

  5. Bernie Krause:

    It’s a true narrative, a story telling us that something is desperately wrong.


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