Example sentences for: subtext

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

  • Chatterbox feels a little dense for not realizing sooner that the subtext (and hence much of the appeal) of a Hillary Clinton-Rudy Giuliani Senate race would be Wronged Wife vs.

  • (The subtext: Serbia has as much right to Kosovo as Israel does to Jerusalem--namely, a lot.)

  • There in the privacy of the changing room I understood that the erotic subtext of Slates--the pants--was that there is no erotic subtext.

  • Still, the unmistakable subtext of Safire's columns and the press coverage of the Lippo affair is that Asians in America are just that--Asians in America, sojourners and foreigners.

  • We Are All Multiculturalists Now is thus the opposite of Beyond the Melting Pot --a putatively neutral book with a profoundly discouraging subtext.


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