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Example sentences for: hinting

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' ” To me, it means, `cotton socks, or nylon socks, or both': there is nothing inherent in the example even hinting at the existence of socks made of a nylon and cotton mixture.
Although unplugged from their sockets, the appliances continue to function, hinting at the battery-operated product Appliances is selling--the Saturn EV1 electric car.
But the investigation should really go beyond the supermarket: when a jewelry store that does ear-piercing advertises, “We sterilize all our instruments,” is it not hinting something unsavory about other establishments?
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."
Afunny little man from the Justice Department was skulking around Slate the other day, hinting that DOJ's effort to force Microsoft to include Netscape Navigator in every copy of Windows 98 is just a warm-up.