Stop tellin' me what to do; I'll figure it out myself.

On the low tide walk, the children excitedly collected brightly colored tellins from the wet sand.

While walking along the tidal flats, she found a tellin buried just beneath the surface and watched its siphon reach out for detritus.

The manager's frequent telling-offs demoralized the team and made them hesitant to take initiative.

Her mother gave her a telling-off for breaking the vase.

Despite the supervisor's tellings-off, the interns kept making the same mistakes.

Despite her promise, she kept kissing and telling everyone about our dates.

When she said the deadline was impossible, you're telling me — I've been pulling 14-hour days all week.

The boy kept telling on his classmates for small mistakes, and soon no one wanted to sit near him.

Coastal biologists studied the tellinids that washed up after the storm.