Example sentences for: subtly

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

  • It is not surprising that my first exposure to non-Brits was in France, where I soon reconciled myself to a Gallic attack on my personal hygiene when they insisted on addressing me as Miss Your Soap, subtly intoned, I always thought, with an interrogatory inflexion.

  • An NEA survey that asks whether you like to go to the theater, opera, ballet, etc., subtly begs for affirmative answers.

  • Levi's hopes to rebound by subtly infiltrating youth culture: sponsoring Lauryn Hill concerts, posting flyers, chalking sidewalks, and airing Errol Morris-directed commercials during Dawson's Creek .

  • She hardly needs to mention it--the media bring it up anyway--but she invokes it subtly, alluding (as she did on two Sunday talk shows) to "women who drive their daughters halfway across the state to shake my hand, a woman they dare to believe in."

  • Even at the corners of the mouth, the phony smile betrays itself by being subtly lopsided: Involuntary expressions, arising in the lower, unitary brain, affect both sides of the mouth equally, but willed expressions are governed by the cerebral hemispheres, the dominant of which sends a stronger signal.


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