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How to use intimation in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Intimation means a hint; an indirect suggestion. Example: “And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end.”

Examples of intimation by meaning

nounA hint; an indirect suggestion.

  • And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 378

More sentences with intimation

  • The modernist intimations accruing as doubts about Rickie's sentimental Edwardianism also undermine Forster's own “sober” Edwardianism.1997, Brian May, The Modernist as Pragmatist, page 50. From the entry Edwardianism
  • The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations.2010, James Matthews, “Late Modernism and the Marketplace”, in Edwina Keown, Carol Taaffe, editors, Irish Modernism, page 172. From the entry allusive
  • What kept his devices from feeling larkish was a sly vocal intimation: even at his most weirdly expressive, Mr.2009 June 19, Nate Chinen, “Territory of Two Norwegian Trumpeters”, in New York Times. From the entry larkish
  • Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40. From the entry Lishui
  • Yet the morbid dimension of the painting is best understood as an intimation and not a keen signifier of the actual death of the depictee.2016, Nathaniel Wallace, Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN…. From the entry depictee
  • It is partly because almost inevitably a word, referring to a vague intimation of reality, tends to substantify and reify the insight with time.1966, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. From the entry substantify
  • He returned to Lancashire; took possession of the property at Manchester; and many years elapsed before he received the mysterious intimation of his father's real death.2020, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman. From the entry take possession
  • The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.1996, Peter F. Ainsworth, "'The Letter Killeth': Law and Spirit in Marie De France's Lay of Le Fresne," French Studies, volume L, no. 1…. From the entry highborn
  • Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and without any intimations of my own ludicrousness spent two years showing God what I thought of him by letting myself go.2007 November 18, Glen Duncan, “Young Man Behaving Badly”, in New York Times. From the entry actorishly

Meaning of intimation

  1. noun A hint; an indirect suggestion.
  2. noun The act of intimating.
  3. noun Announcement; declaration.

Full definition of intimation

Questions about intimation in a sentence

How do you use intimation in a sentence?
Intimation is used as a noun. For example: “And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end.”
What is a short sentence with intimation?
“And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end.”
What does intimation mean?
Intimation means a hint; an indirect suggestion.

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