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Example sentences for: hinting

How can you use “hinting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And there was Pakistan, whose Foreign Minister Ayub Khan responded, reports the NYT , by hinting that his country would consider conducting its own nuclear tests.
Several congressmen are hinting that a public mea culpa would end all of Clinton's worries, but a White House spokesman stated, "The President has told the truth about this and he will continue to do so."
Although unplugged from their sockets, the appliances continue to function, hinting at the battery-operated product Appliances is selling--the Saturn EV1 electric car.
In most cases, however, it consists, as the previous examples suggest, of two elements, each hinting at the answer in its own way.
(These two outfits are especially intrigued by White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster's suicide--or rather, "suicide"--hinting that Foster was murdered; that his suicide note was forged; and that he died in a White House parking lot.)