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How to use implication in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Implication means the act of implicating. Example: “Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.”

Examples of implication by meaning

nounA possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.

  • Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.
  • And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN

nounAn implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood...

  • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168

More sentences with implication

  • The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.From the entry brief
  • An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.From the entry entailment
  • The relation of logical implication over sentences is an example of a preorder.From the entry preorder
  • She was far too quick-witted to miss the implications of what he was saying.From the entry quickwitted
  • The Riemann hypothesis has deep implications about the distribution of prime numbers.From the entry Riemann hypothesis
  • The hypothetical syllogism inference rule states the transitivity of implication.From the entry transitivity
  • This article's sparse discussion of tax-policy implications shortchanges the subject.From the entry shortchange
  • Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering.2025 March 13, Dalton Conley, “A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way”, in New York Times. From the entry hereditarian
  • In addition, the discovery offers key implications for understanding the habitability of rocky planets, the researchers said.2025 September 3, Julia Jacobo, “What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out”, in ABC News. From the entry habitability
  • Blasterbating may seem like a First World problem, yet, its implications are far more insidious.2024 July 5, Kendra Stanton Lee, “Blasterbating Needs to Stop. Turn Down For What? – Opinion”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on…. From the entry blasturbating
  • I really don't have the headspace for the moral implications of any of that right now.2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024. From the entry headspace
  • Farrier, 39, said he often questioned the moral implications of his trips.2022 October 28, Maria Cramer, “Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ Tourists Prefer the Gloomy and Macabre”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry murky
  • He also understood the implication that the recoverees might still have mixed allegiance.2021, Michael Z. Williamson, That was Now, This is Then. From the entry recoveree
  • Superspreading was a phenomenon about which little is still known, but it had implications for preventive tactics.2021, Peter Baldwin, Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe, Cambridge: Cambridge…. From the entry superspread
  • If it’s true, this would have conservation implications, as older giraffes are often culled or trophy hunted.2021 August 7, Cara Giaimo, “We’ve Underestimated the Social Lives of Giraffes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry trophy hunt
  • Jordan regarded his enunciation of 'revolutionary folkism' as 'National Socialism developed to its ultimate implications'.2020, Graham Macklin, Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right, page 1965. From the entry folkism
  • Now Prossiden's finger was brandished, and preened the air in front of Onascam's face with florid implications.2019, J.E. Franklin, Crouching at the Door. From the entry preen
  • As a society, we barely discuss the realities and implications of singledom.2018 September 8, Sonia Sodha, “It’s time to ditch the stereotypes and look at the realities behind singledom”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry reality
  • Incomprehensible violence and the tragedy that follows, the implication goes, inject a surreal dimension into existence.2017 June 16, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Dizzying, Surreal Journey of ‘The Leftovers’”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN. From the entry surreal
  • Okay, she ewwed at the implications of that one, just a little.2016, Ira Nayman, “The Digital Gods Have More Important Things to Worry About”, in It’s Just the Chronosphere Unfolding as it Should…. From the entry eww
  • But what the physical implications of the universe being a 3-donut, and can we look for them?2016 January 18, Alex Klotz, “The Simpson-Hawking Donut Universe”, in Post-Doc Ergo Propter Hoc. From the entry hyperdonut
  • Apart from that, their etiologies, pathogenesis, and clinical implications differ, making it important to distinguish between them.2016 August, Adriana Lama, Lucía Ferreiro, María E. Toubes, Antonio Golpe, Francisco Gude, José M. Álvarez-Dobaño, Francisco J.…. From the entry pseudochylothorax
  • So the implication there is that even 12-year-olds in France will find the movie tame.2015 February 15, “Tobacco”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry tame
  • For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time. From the entry autoinfanticide
  • Don't you see the implications and writings on the wall for our family's future?2014, Daniel Carnahan, The Manipulator, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 594. From the entry writing on the wall
  • The presence of stability has implications for the question of endonormativity in the case of Indian English.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112. From the entry endonormativity
  • I'll leave aside the implications of connecting a 'general theory of intention' with 'extenuatives', that is, excuses.2014, B. Garvey, J. L. Austin on Language. From the entry extenuative
  • Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.2014 August, Joseph Brennan, David Large, “‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in…. From the entry pull to publish
  • It is this implication, this assured value judgement, on which the serious consequence of comfortability becomes apparent.2012, Cara Jones, Philip Richardson, “Stepping into Comfortable Old Shoes: ‘The Consequence of Archaeological Comfortability’”, in Hannah…. From the entry comfortability
  • The implication is a structural ghost that twists and shapes the subsequent narrative.2011, Graham Joyce, “Narrative and Regeneration: The Little Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-century…. From the entry pseudoincest
  • Two of these processes, vernalisation and the breaking of winter dormancy, have important implications for gardeners.2008, David S. Ingram, Daphne Vince-Prue, Peter J. Gregory, editors, Science and the Garden: The Scientific Basis of Horticultural…. From the entry vernalization
  • The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open.2008, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, editors, Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C.…. From the entry deuterolearning
  • Total ballsache really, but our commanders were concerned about the political implications of what we were planning.2008, Jerry Pook, RAF Harrier Ground Attack: Falklands, page 6. From the entry ballsache
  • Unfortunately, The Political Brain doesn't follow up on the implications of this research.2007 July 15, Chris Lehmann, “Psyched”, in The Washington Post. From the entry campaignspeak
  • There are two sufficient conditions for implication that can be quickly checked: absorbsion and reduction.2007, John N. Hooker, Integrated Methods for Optimization. From the entry absorbsion
  • Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.2006, Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern, page 80. From the entry queer
  • It’s just that there aren’t any observable implications of their celestial presence!”2006, Norman D. Cook, Models of the Atomic Nucleus: With Interactive Software, page 118. From the entry count angels on pinheads

Meaning of implication

  1. noun The act of implicating.
  2. noun The state of being implicated.
  3. noun A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.

Full definition of implication

Questions about implication in a sentence

How do you use implication in a sentence?
Implication is used as a noun. For example: “Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.”
What is a short sentence with implication?
“The hypothetical syllogism inference rule states the transitivity of implication.”
What does implication mean?
Implication means the act of implicating.

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