How to Use intimation in a Sentence

intimation

noun

• And in its brightest hours, Friday almost offered a tremor of an intimation of a hint that spring lay not so far off.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• The intimation was that Met officials knew—or should have known—that the coffin was looted, but bought it anyway.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Just as poignant as these reminders of the craftsman’s labor is the intimation that some of the spectacle remains hidden from view.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• The first intimation Kearny had of this was when a messenger from Commodore Stockton met him at Warner.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• The slots would open up randomly with no intimation or logic, and so the only way to get an appointment was to keep refreshing the website for hours.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 May 2021
• Mars contains past evidence of flowing water with an intimation of some kind of life.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• Some of his greatest feats may not even register with lay listeners, even as a vague intimation or emotion.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Today, merely the mention of her name is enough to render as absurd any intimation that women ought to avoid solo travel.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2021
• In the fourth season, CBS tried expanding each episode to an hour, but Serling had always been better at intimation than exposition, and the new format flopped.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
• Wafting through this story is a certain vague intimation.
  — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• To model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting—to try to achieve, in a lab, an intimation of immortality.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 May 2021
• Ole Miss took issue with that intimation, and Saban clarified his point Monday.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2020
• At that stage, there was no intimation from the White House that Trump’s condition was serious enough to justify a hospital stay, even a precautionary one.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2020
• Projections of photographs of the singer as a girl—giving a first intimation of how personal Weekends With Adele will actually be.
  — Hayley Maitland, Glamour, 18 Nov. 2022
• The intimation was viewed as a threat by some organizations that represent Black farmers.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2021
• Southgate, as was to be expected, seemed unruffled afterward by the intimation that his team had lacked ambition.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• Whatever may be next, Thomas has illumined this world with grace, beauty, humor, and love, and surely that is an intimation of immortality.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• On their own, Brendan and Pieper mock Natasha for not taking the situation well, including reiterating their mean intimation that no one was into her anyway.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• To modern eyes, this reads as an appealing universality, achieved through abstracting the particulars into intimations that are left up to the viewer to resolve.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• If Haugen’s Facebook files were a bracing exposé of the algorithms powering the globe’s largest social network, her new memoir is a series of softer intimations, revealing the person behind the documents.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• Obama’s binary-choice framing regarding war and peace with Iran, since debunked by events, was only slightly less ugly than his intimation that those who opposed him harbored dual allegiances.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 13 Nov. 2020
• All intimations that Kalki is the final avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, making a cameo on Earth to eradicate evil, are either accepted without much pushback or apparently deemed unimportant.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• The reopening has the distinction of being both highly anticipated and something of a symbolic intimation of the return of public art exhibitions in general.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• Cruz rejected the intimation that his holds have undermined national security.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2021
• Their ability to dictate the lives of impoverished majorities rested on tradition and the intimation of violence but was inherently precarious.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
• Everything is well, until Robbie’s Barbie begins having fleeting intimations of mortality, little oatmilk clouds in her coffee.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Thankfully, Friedkin insisted on keeping Blatty’s backdrop, with its intimations of gothic mystery and Jesuitical inquiry.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024