Example sentences for: hinting

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

  • "Reagan Democrats are now Republicans," said This Week 's Kristol, hinting at a broad political realignment.

  • Imagine the hilarity in Premiere 's legal department when the magazine received a letter from Peter Kaufman's lawyer objecting to the "wee-willy" passage and hinting at legal action.

  • Both the WP front and a piece inside at the NYT report that Sunday's statement by President Clinton hinting at U.S. support for additional international financial loans to shore up the Russian economy utterly failed to have the anticipated soothing effect: Russian stocks fell another ten percent and the ruble worsened slightly.

  • The hike was widely expected, but Fed officials surprised analysts by hinting that they may raise rates again in October.

  • In fact, the provision of one example for each sense group within an entry is an innovative and pragmatically satisfactory way of hinting at the possibility and permissibility of collocation with other words a writer, whose native language is not English, may have in mind at the moment of consultation.


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