How to use telly in a sentence

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More sentences with telly

• There are lots of good things to watch on the telly tonight — I don't think!From the entry I don't think
• Your telly is buggered, best get it fixed.From the entry buggered
• The blinking telly isn't working again.From the entry blinking
• Some examples are Aussie 'Australian', brekky 'breakfast', bickie 'biscuit', barbie 'barbeque' and telly 'television'.2015, William B. McGregor, “Structure of Words: Morphology”, in Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, London; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hypocorism
• This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian. From the entry motormouth
• Orange spokesman Matt Sears says you can use MobiTV to watch "regular telly in moments of microboredom".2005 June 30, Jack Schofield, “One size fits all networks”, in The Guardian. From the entry microboredom
• I mean what a buzz, man, me four fans, an’ I'm on the fookin’ telly!2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry how's your father
• I can hardly turn on the telly without being confronted by your antipatico manner.1994 July 27, Maggie Brown, The Independent. From the entry antipatico
• The ending felt rushed to me, and I wish it would have been more showy and less telly.2024 July 1, pinkjamie, “Well...”, in BookishFirst, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024. From the entry showy
• Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) is terminally incapable of zipping it up.1998, Monica Sullivan, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, page 18. From the entry zip up
• He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.1992, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Long live Sandawara, page 61. From the entry telly tennis
• No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum!1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47). From the entry blee
• You can lemonise your lights, And grapefruitise your telly, You can run your hi-fi set on orange mousse.1980, The Electrical Review, volume 206, numbers 1-9. From the entry lemonize
• No telly, no luxuries, no zhoosh.2020 June 18, Simon Doonan, “Let's Return to the Exuberance of Window Shopping”, in Town & Country. From the entry zhoosh
• I was bombarded with hysterical Black Friday offers to upgrade my telly, my tablet, my computer, my phone and my DVD player.2014 November 28, Judith Woods, “Three cheers for Mariella and the ‘M’ word”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 22 Jun…. From the entry doofer
• Hooked on telly tennis, or football?1979 October 4, New Scientist, volume 84, number 1175, page 48. From the entry telly tennis

Meaning of telly

1. noun Television.
2. noun A television set.
3. noun Telegraph.

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Questions about telly in a sentence

How do you use telly in a sentence?

Telly is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Not much on telly tonight, as usual!”

What is a short sentence with telly?

“You're from telly!”

What does telly mean?

Telly means television.