How to Use telly in a Sentence

telly

noun

• Please turn off the telly.
• I just want to relax and watch the telly.
• This is a fine time to cozy up with a good book or in front of the telly.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 19 Jan. 2022
• But part of me will always half stifle a laugh when a man is naked on the telly.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• The simple box hooks up to the telly, your home network and the internet.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2008
• The film awards took place in March, while this night celebrated the best in telly.
  — Vulture, 8 May 2022
• Dinner almost always takes place on the sofa in front of the telly.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2022
• Friends will send me music a lot, and just hearing it online, on telly.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• As a Chinese woman growing up in Australia, role models who looked like me on the telly and on the big screen were hard to come by.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• Getting plunked in front of the telly rather than taken to the funeral was formative.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• This may be an opportunity to catch up on your reading or do some binge watching in front of the telly.
  — Ed Silverman Reprints, STAT, 21 Apr. 2023
• Then that show came out and Gurinder [Chada], our director, saw me on the telly and then called me into audition.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• If the clouds start rolling in, no need to batten down the hatches: This water-resistant telly can weather a spring shower or even a brief dip in the pool.
  — Nicole Sforza, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• This may also be an opportunity to turn on the telly and catch up on your binge watching.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
• With that in mind, this may be an opportunity to enjoy a flick or two on the telly, meet a fun friend at a whiskey bar, or simply take a few naps.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 July 2022
• The day after the moon landing brought another one of those interminable afternoons in the front room—nothing on the telly, stale, old-folks’ chat in the air.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 20 July 2019
• At the end of a day filled with the hard work of being an internationally popular pop star, Harry Styles needs to kick up his feet and put something on the telly.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
• This was an attempt by the BBC to educate Britons about just what the hell all these new fancy machines that looked like crappy typewriters connected to your telly were all about.
  — Jason Torchinsky, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2020
• But generally the interviews make for great telly, especially in the last days of an election.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• But, overwhelmingly, she’s formed and nourished by the warmth and crazy cheerfulness of her mother and her sister, the coziness of the three of them together under the telly blanket.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• There will be no vistas of Victorian Era clubhouses beaming through the telly.
  — Matthew Futterman, WSJ, 19 July 2017
• At parties across Naperville, royal-watchers will be tuning their tellies to catch a glimpse of the pomp and pageantry of an American marrying into family of the longest-reigning monarch.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 16 May 2018
• And with the rise of digital media, promotion of liquor products has moved from the telly screen to online platforms such as Facebook, and Instagram targeting young tipplers.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 27 Dec. 2019
• This may be an opportunity to park yourself in front of the telly and catch up on your binge watching or, conversely, lively up yourself by venturing to a museum or danceteria.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 Jan. 2023
• Staying inside in front of the telly while the weather outside changes up every five minutes sounds pretty good to us — especially when Netflix is delivering so many eagerly awaited season drops and movies.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024