How to Use insinuation in a Sentence

insinuation

noun

• I resent her insinuation that I can't do it without her help.
• He criticizes his opponents by insinuation rather than directly.
• Buch dismissed the report’s insinuations as baseless but did confirm that her husband had a stake in the fund.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• The insinuation is this is something, by the way, that’s wrong.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 27 Sep. 2018
• Trump’s inveigling and insinuations make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 June 2017
• The insinuation: This is how San Diego will buy and siphon off your water.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2023
• But in a blog post on the Big Cat Rescue site, Baskin refutes many of these claims and insinuations from the docuseries.
  — Anabel Pasarow, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• There’s this insinuation that people just want to get out of work.
  — Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2020
• The insinuation, a not-uncommon one over the past two years, is that Putin might have some leverage over Trump.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• The insinuation of the mid-1980s in costume and design must not be overdone.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• In a joint statement last week, all three men brushed aside any insinuation of strife at the top of one of the NFL's jewel franchises.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• The insinuation that Democrats were drinking on the job—though honestly who could blame them?—drew jeers and demands that it be stricken from the record.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
• People of color know the sting of a certain type of insinuation.
  — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• Smith, who has lived on East Allen Avenue for decades, scoffed at the defense lawyers’ insinuation the area is dangerous.
  — Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
• And Nunes’s insinuations were later proven to be false.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Mar. 2018
• The insinuation, of course, is that Swift’s fame grew because of the 2009 interruption.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• A loose-ball-chasing swipe from the Warriors center led to a video-board insinuation that the swipe was at a Cavaliers’ player’s crotch.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• Lil Nas, tickled by the insinuation, called out Benzino for not knowing how to explain a kiss to his kids.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2022
• Evelyn took this as an insinuation that an old lady should be happy for the company of a small, odd boy.
  — Marisa Silver, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• The insinuation that anti-fascist activists set fires on the West Coast is also false.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
• The insinuation is that these standards would delay a vaccine past the election.
  — Mark McClellan, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2020
• First, the insinuation that Joe Biden had abused his authority to pressure Kyiv had spread far and wide before the campaign broadcast the ad.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Biggs and Brooks denied the insinuation in comments to The Washington Post this week.
  — Michael Kranish, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• The obvious insinuation from the white mother was that the little Black girl didn’t belong in ballet.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Power poles were leaning at strange angles, tons of trash and branches were piled on the curbs, and in many cases, naked studs provided mere insinuations of the roofs that had blown away.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• But the insinuation that this would be a negative, or such a negative that adding one f the best talents in the country wouldn’t be worth it, yes, that is patently absurd.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
• Tony is disgusted by the insinuation, but his parade of girlfriends and crushes proves Melfi was right.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
• That insinuation also hangs over the other case Mr. Durham has developed, which is set to go to trial later this year.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2022
• The mere insinuation that the concept is present in curriculum has drawn dozens to school board meetings and legislative hearings.
  — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
• The insinuation, of course, was Tagovailoa can pay for it after inking his four-year, $212.4 million extension last week.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024