It is horrible enough on this island withouthinting of ghosts.
Anything tainted with imagination; anything hinting of romance; any weak concession to prejudice, convention, good taste, I refuse to be guilty of.
The merest approximation only can be attempted inhinting here the pronunciation of French names.
Why, papa, when at first I imagined that Mara might have thought I had been hinting in my very foolish talk that I wished what afterward took place, I was so overwhelmed with shame that I could hardly speak.
Believe me, Mara, I was not hinting to you that I might share in the little you are earning so bravely.
She was always hinting at the wonderful things she got out of him, but as he was never conscious of them, he could not understand her.
More and more he treated his brother with condescension, and was continually hinting at the things marriage did for a man.
From day to day they were thus kept; Olivares hinting that as soon as news came that King James had given liberty to English Catholics, all obstacles would be removed, and the Infanta might accompany her bridegroom to England.
Hijar, it appears, had written to her hinting at some plan against the Government being in contemplation, and asking her advice.
She was constantly hintingsomething of the kind; and begging of him to make a disclosure--disclosure of what?
A move of some sort suspected--the opposition prints all hintingat tricks and ambuscades.
The corporal made his appearance, all humility and respect, and was again sounded as to what could be done with Smallbones, Vanslyperken hinting very clearly what his wishes tended to.
Yet these reports were vague, although hinting at some horrid and appalling crimes.
Lilly had fully expected he would whisper a familiar word hinting at the day before, a soft "Lilly.
Nevertheless, their eyes remained fastened on the goal of their aspirations; and the yearning they both felt, though neither of them would express it for fear of hinting reproaches, threw a fairy film of gold over the universe.
As we inspected him, he drew his night-cap down farther, hinting that he did not wish to see the sun that day.
She always lets me have my own way without hinting an objection.
The Ingins must have one or two canoes," suggested Hastings, hintingat a scheme that had assumed form in his mind.
It may be a blue Shantung or a white pique, but it won't be gray flannel, if that's what you're hinting at.
Newspaper correspondence soon was full of the story,--each informant of course hinting plainly that he had been behind the scenes all along, and had withheld it only to gratify the authorities in their policy of silence.
People, some of the papers even, are already hinting that I'm too easy on a rich man and his friend.
I won't promise that it shall not yield to my curiosity if you go on hinting at untold secrets.
Indeed, he dismissed the moral aspect of the affair in a slurred and utterly mendacious justification, hinting that Violet Maynard had only herself to thank for having played fast and loose with the Maharajah.
No," stated Captain Candage, hinting by his tone that he wondered what difference that would make to them in the straits in which they were placed.
The bulging packet seemed to press against Mayo's ribs, insistently hintingat its power to help.
Are you hinting that anybody would plant a man for a job of that kind?
This accusation was taken up by the comic poets, who charged him with great profligacy, hinting that he had an improper passion for the wife of Menippus, his friend, and a lieutenant-general in the army.
He also vexed the people by building the Temple of Artemis of Good Counsel, as he called her, hinting that he had taken good counsel for the Greeks.
Does that apply to our fine pork products in the wagon yonder; or are you hinting that perhaps our lives are in danger, and you're fixing up a game to keep us from going under?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hinting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
