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story-telling

Speech parts

1. story-telling - Noun

2. story-telling - Adjective

Meaning

Being accustomed to tell stories.

The act or practice of telling stories.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

story telling

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Examples

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. Bruce Dickinson

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. Piers Anthony

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub. Jimmy Carr

It's a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you're a sucker for it: Isn't story-telling what being human is all about? Charles Stross

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Michael Shermer

Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories. John Banville

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