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Example sentences for "imply"

Lexicographically close words:
imployed; imploying; imployment; imployments; impluvium; implying; impolicy; impolite; impoliteness; impolitic
  1. By this jest Aristophanes means to imply that tyranny is dead, and that no one aspires to despotic power, though this silly accusation was constantly being raised by the demagogues and always favourably received by the populace.

  2. The key had been made over to us with much formality; but we soon found that our tenancy was understood to imply no right of seclusion.

  3. He repeated his words with an emphasis that seemed to imply that he was not to be trifled with, and that it was no use pretending not to understand him.

  4. Worse and worse, for that would imply that they took bribes, and that she was an old smuggler.

  5. Their hopes have had to sleep, and a year of war has shown that 'a synchronized bank-rate and reacting bourses' imply no further unity.

  6. It will be seen that I imply a disagreement with the Tolstoian conception of reform; in so far as that involves a neglect of food and clothing and generally of what are called material goods.

  7. The idea of property does not, however, necessarily imply that there should be no rent, any more than that there should be no taxes.

  8. We do not mean to imply that the ferment in question is not capable of acting on some other fermentable substance and giving rise to fermentation of a very different kind.

  9. Nor, again, does the mere presence of lactic acid necessarily imply the presence of lactic ferment.

  10. The shipment of aviation engines to Europe, however, does not imply the immediate use of them by our airplane squadrons at the front.

  11. To produce Springfields on a grand scale in private plants would imply the use of thousands of gauges, jigs, dies, and other small tools necessary for such a manufacture, as well as that of great quantities of special machines.

  12. The fact was pointed out that otherwise the action of the British authorities seemed to imply the right to exercise an embargo on the sale and delivery of non-contraband goods in the ordinary course of trade with the people of the Republics.

  13. Do you forsooth mean to imply that my wish is to become your tool?

  14. Pao-yĆ¼ eagerly exclaimed smiling, "if I said that she should come to our house, does it necessarily imply that she should be a servant?

  15. The old cottage of a man of the Ch'in dynasty' is meant to imply a retreat from revolution, and how will it suit this place?

  16. If He was a mere creature, how could He have used language to which it was possible to give such an interpretation as would imply Divinity?

  17. Now his vanity was wounded--not so much that she should question his arrangements, as that the form the opposition took should actually imply her willingness to bear a separation.

  18. I can't believe you know it, but you actually seem to imply that you care for me more sincerely, more humanly, than I do for you, which is obviously impossible.

  19. So he was actually taking her words to imply that she wanted money.

  20. In writing thus, I do not mean to imply that the abuse of intoxicating liquors, or the vice of drunkenness were then unknown in America.

  21. You are quite welcome to accuse me of it, however; but as in your last letter you imply that I accept the accusation, I beg leave to state distinctly that I do not.

  22. Did he mean to imply that those places have, since the sermon, been thronged with the "wives and daughters of Brooklyn?

  23. All we can say is that up to the present time experimental psychology has disclosed no sex differences in mental traits which would imply a division of labor on psychological grounds.

  24. Determination in one direction did not imply the general quality of resoluteness.

  25. By average intelligence we do not of course imply any uniform or standardized homogeneous equipment.

  26. We can only say that, so far, scientific experiment has revealed no sex differences in the original nature of intellect that would imply a necessary differentiation of vocations on the ground of sex.

  27. I do not mean to imply that there is more poetry in the prose writings of a nation's literature than in its verse writings.

  28. Nor does it imply that we cannot appreciate a poet because we disapprove of the religion or political party with which he is affiliated.

  29. It is hardly necessary to add that this is not meant to imply any definite knowledge of the real meaning of, the seeming oscillations of the sun.

  30. The word prehistoric seems to imply barbarism, while science, clearly enough, seems the outgrowth of civilization; but rightly considered, there is no contradiction.

  31. By this it is not meant to imply that he had a distinct conception of infinity, but, for that matter, it cannot be said that any one to-day has a conception of infinity that could be called definite.

  32. But a far more remarkable insight than this would imply was shown by Anaxagoras when he asserted that a certain amount of air is contained in water, and that fishes breathe this air.

  33. Neither that word nor any other available one probably conveys an accurate idea of what Anaxagoras meant to imply by the word nous.

  34. Supposing it were not so, the power of evil, the devil, if you choose to name it and imply a personal existence for it, might have hold of the world even more tightly than now.

  35. I suppose the month they there intended was June, and not July, as the copies now have it; nor does Tacitus's coherence imply less.

  36. The great size of some of the blocks of granite, and the distance which they have travelled, imply a power in the river which it no longer possesses.

  37. Mr. Gunn informs me that the vertebrae of two distinct whales were found in the fluvio-marine beds at Bacton, and that one of them, shown to Professor Owen, is said by him to imply that the animal was 60 feet long.

  38. Although the flint here employed must have come from a distance (probably from the south of France), the chippings of the material are in such profusion as to imply that there was a manufactory of implements on the spot.

  39. This does not imply that women fail to value friends in black broadcloth, nor that they refuse their affections to lovers and husbands in derby hats.

  40. Why should he dread popularity, lest it imply that he resembles other men?

  41. I wanted to imply that pure but small stream which conveys intelligence from a fountain to a river it was not meant to feed.

  42. She made no other answer to this rude question than by a smile so dubious in its meaning, it might imply scorn, or pity, or even sorrow.

  43. And yet that might have been a mere phrase to imply that the letter was finished.

  44. These fellows never do; they always imply there is a game to be played, an issue to be waited for, else their occupation were gone.

  45. That does not mean or imply any lessened value in the experience itself, it only means that it is very difficult to mint it into the universal coinage of the world.

  46. This happens now just as it did in pliocene and pleistocene times, and need not imply change of climate.

  47. The distribution of Zonites certainly does not seem to imply an Alpine origin, because it is almost completely absent from the Alps proper.

  48. It is possible also that the very restricted occurrence of the Dartford Warbler may imply that it is gradually withdrawing towards its centre of origin from a former wider range.

  49. Wisdom and prudence imply that fine perspective which gives a person balance and tact in all situations.

  50. The foregoing observations imply again that the teacher, after all, is the great factor in the success of the school.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accuse; affect; allege; allegorize; amount; approve; argue; arraign; article; assume; attest; augur; bespeak; betoken; book; breathe; bring; charge; cite; clue; communicate; complain; comprise; connote; contain; demonstrate; denote; denounce; display; drive; entail; evidence; evince; exhibit; express; finger; get; gossip; hint; illustrate; impeach; implicate; imply; import; impute; indicate; indict; infer; insinuate; intimate; involve; make; manifest; mark; mean; mention; partake; point; presume; presuppose; promise; prompt; refer; remind; report; reproach; require; seem; show; signalize; signify; spell; subsume; suggest; suppose; symbolize; take; task; taunt; tax; tell; twit