Example sentences for: inkling

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

  • I found the basic setup--that Michael has no inkling of Gina's family ties--implausible, since where I come from you don't ask a woman to marry you (you don't even get past the first date) until you've explained to her the ways in which your family screwed you up and have expressed tender sympathy for the ways in which her family did likewise.

  • These are not very hard to find in newspapers (as of the headline writer (who is not, usually, the writer of the article) is to come up with something that is a telegraphically brief inkling of the substance of the article.

  • And Jordan testified that he never had an inkling during his assist to Lewinsky's job search that she and the president were intimate.

  • As it happened, the first plans for the expansion of the ACD were discussed in 1958, when the people at Random House had no inkling of a forthcoming new edition from Merriam; as I have described elsewhere, from its conception, the plans for the RHD were entirely market-driven.

  • Others may have had an inkling of his secret agenda but only now can the truth be told.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast