Example sentences for: inkling

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gilbert can't bring himself to reach out to his brokenhearted wife (Lesley Manville), and Sullivan has a melancholy inkling that he has reached his artistic peak.


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