Example sentences for: innuendo

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

  • Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.

  • The old Nixon hand knows well that innuendo is effective only if well calibrated.

  • A Teletubbies spokesman says 1) Tinky Winky carries a "magic bag," not a purse; 2) the magic bag "doesn't make him gay"; 3) "to think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children's show is kind of outlandish"; and 4) Falwell is besmirching "something sweet and innocent" to advance his right-wing agenda.

  • Also, an article slams Regnery, the right-wing publishing house that's made a fortune with anti-Clinton books: The once-distinguished conservative press now passes off salacious rumor and cruel innuendo as fact.

  • This is talk radio for the rest of us--people who like information and words, have the conventional concerns of family and work, and enjoy a little innuendo now and then.


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