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How to use suggestion in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Suggestion means something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for). Example: “I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.”

Examples of suggestion by meaning

nounSomething suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).

  • make a suggestion
  • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
  • Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

nounThe act of suggesting.

  • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

nounSomething implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

  • He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

More sentences with suggestion

  • The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.From the entry trouble
  • The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.From the entry mere
  • She gave me a chilly look when I made the suggestion.From the entry chilly
  • Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.From the entry run down
  • I need you to brainstorm some suggestions for next week's activity schedule.From the entry brainstorm
  • The suggestion that they work through the holidays met with deafening silence.From the entry deafening silence
  • After his last suggestion was laughed at by his colleagues, he was gunshy about making another suggestion.From the entry gunshy
  • Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea.From the entry go with
  • Please direct all suggestions to the OPI of the event, Mr. Smith.From the entry OPI
  • We bounced around some suggestions in-house and then workshopped the best ones afterward.From the entry bounce around
  • I thought my suggestions would be appreciated, but the backlash is more than I had bargained for.From the entry bargain for
  • I was being deadly serious when I made that suggestion.From the entry be
  • The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.From the entry lukewarm
  • We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.From the entry opinion
  • He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.From the entry put out
  • The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.From the entry flush
  • He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.From the entry repugnance
  • I look poorly on any suggestion of overspending.From the entry look on
  • That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.From the entry bulldoze
  • Brian was utterly unamenable to any of my suggestions.From the entry unamenable
  • She looked poorly on that suggestion.From the entry poorly
  • She kept making these amorous suggestions.From the entry amorous
  • We file suggestions to correct the relevant Wikipedia entries, but are denied for lack of citable sources.2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 21. From the entry citable
  • How does Prosser feel about the suggestion that he is 'overreaching'?2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 33. From the entry overreach
  • When one asked for suggestions, the first reply was: ‘Shoot up a Synagogue.2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2022, →ISBN. From the entry 8channer
  • Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable.2019, Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis, editors, What is Scientific Knowledge?, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry unfalsifiable
  • I’m just warming up here, so, yes, this is the "obvi" suggestion.2019 May 28, Becky Krystal, “Leave no corn tortilla behind: 6 smart ways to use them up”, in The Washington Post, archived from the…. From the entry obvi
  • In any case, Feinsilver’s nomenclatural suggestions and fine distinctions did not enjoy widespread adoption.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7. From the entry fine
  • The evidence given for this suggestion is purely anecdotal, not to mention largely underresearched elsewhere.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 84. From the entry underresearched
  • Unsure of the correct procedure, I Googled “cleaning brass door-knobs” and an unexpected suggestion popped up.2018 September 13, Peter Barron, “Grandad at Large: Caught red-handed”, in The Northern Echo, Darlington, County Durham, →OCLC, page 49…. From the entry door-knob
  • So my suggestion to you is, “never bring home left-overs from a restaurant, it turns to ----."2016, Gerald James Avila, Home for Good. From the entry postum note
  • Some suggestions include pothos, philodendrons, arrowheads, Chinese evergreens, peace lilies and zamioculcas (or “ZZ”).2015, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry windowsill
  • "Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold."2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy. From the entry twofold
  • At the waiter's suggestion, they added mushroom soup and khachapuri, the traditional and ubiquitous Georgian cheese bread.2014, John Shiffman, “‘Very Rich Men’”, in Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting, New York, N.Y.: Simon &…. From the entry khachapuri
  • Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay cool. Call North Korea's bluff.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry unfathomable

Meaning of suggestion

  1. noun Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
  2. noun The act of suggesting.
  3. noun Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

Full definition of suggestion

Questions about suggestion in a sentence

How do you use suggestion in a sentence?
Suggestion is used as a noun. For example: “I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.”
What is a short sentence with suggestion?
“make a suggestion”
What does suggestion mean?
Suggestion means something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suggestion (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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