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
• The problem is that all those scoops and curls and shadows, those flecks of luxury and intimations of depth, represent just the kind of decorative line items that get stricken from a conscientious budget.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Ditto the flashbacks to her middle-class family back in the West African country, who can afford to hire armed security guards while intimations of civil war percolate around them.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Also, why would a plastic doll have intimations of mortality?
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
• 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
• At least Barbie was jolted into action by a stabbing intimation of mortality.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024