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Example sentences for "innuendoes"

Lexicographically close words:
innovator; innovators; innoxious; inns; innuendo; innuendos; innumerable; innumerably; innumerous; innutrition
  1. I would suffer death rather than see Doris subjected to the leers and innuendoes of every lout in the village.

  2. To what a tempest might not that cloud develop when the questionings and innuendoes of the inquest established an aura of suspicion and intrigue around a perfectly innocent meeting in the garden of The Hollies!

  3. Siddle's innuendoes and protestations were sufficiently hard to bear without the added knowledge that a ridiculous convention denied her the companionship of a man whom she loved, and who, she was beginning to believe, loved her.

  4. His tongue wagged as gayly and bitterly as ever, and hardly a night passed but he infuriated Tammas almost to blows with his innuendoes and insidious sarcasms.

  5. Now David, though repudiating in the village Red Wull's complicity with the crimes, at home was never so happy as when casting cunning innuendoes to that effect.

  6. His fatuous innuendoes were unmistakable, and bore out the broader and more shameful accusation hurled by Irene.

  7. King and his subjects, by innuendoes of the danger which must result from my being present at it.

  8. I felt myself bound at once, not to defend the terms of surrender, but to repel the innuendoes aimed at General Sherman.

  9. He was unduly sensitive of all accusations or innuendoes touching his honor.

  10. At this Sir Edward began to throw out innuendoes to which I replied in like vein.

  11. It went against the grain for those swine to cast innuendoes to a white woman and forgetting my play acting, I told him his comments were uncalled for and advised him to draw in his horns a bit.

  12. You may imagine how uneasy these innuendoes made me.

  13. He has heard sneering words and cruel innuendoes fall from the lips of his fashionable friends, perhaps; and he is ashamed of his marriage.

  14. Lord Caversham's insolent innuendoes would be silenced if I had ten thousand a year.

  15. Julien understood at last the innuendoes which he had surprised, when the high society of the locality used to come and dine at M.

  16. During the whole day her bold and incisive friendship regaled her cousin with those innuendoes which were intended to paint in hideous colours the dangers she was running.

  17. He had already learned from Lord Lufton's innuendoes what he might expect to hear as the public version of his share in these transactions!

  18. But still, she couldn't help longing to know what Nevitt's half-hints and innuendoes might mean.

  19. There had been life and emotion in these touch-and-go speeches, covert sneers, quick retorts, innuendoes met and flung back in the very face of the sneerer.

  20. Juan, the innuendoes of Villafana and the monitions of Magdalena, recurring to his mind with painful force.

  21. There were innuendoes regarding certain women, but I put them out of my mind as twaddle.

  22. Have you not read the scandalous innuendoes in the newspapers?

  23. Heretofore, innuendoes had ever had power to drive him to hot rage, to-day his tolerance might have passed for indifference, but for the quick trembling of those ever-building fingers.

  24. I was absolutely certain that Sacchi's innuendoes had no grain of truth in them.

  25. It was a storm of innuendoes and equivocal allusions, upon which my presence barely imposed a check.

  26. Their innuendoes directed against myself, and the continuous open gossip which went on, overcame my philosophy at last, and I resolved to suspend my visits altogether without waiting for Lent.

  27. This wise functionary became alarmed at the piles of papers and rolls of manuscripts that were seen about our rooms, and equally suspicious about the dark hints and mysterious innuendoes he threw out from time to time.

  28. She knew that Christine's charges carried innuendoes from the way Blake met them, but she did not know what the innuendoes were.

  29. Your brother has behaved with such extreme candour and good feeling towards me, that I would really rather not hear any of your unpleasant innuendoes against him.

  30. Influenced by Charlotte's hints about her stepfather, Mr. Hawkehurst's friendly feeling for that gentleman grew stronger, and the sneers and innuendoes of the lawyer ceased to have the smallest power over him.

  31. At the conclusion she broke down entirely and was led up to bed by Kate and Bella, the sympathy of the latter taking an acute form, and consisting mainly of innuendoes which could only refer to one person in the house.

  32. Here at least the steward was safe from the designs of Mrs. Silk and the innuendoes of Fullalove Alley.

  33. I withdraw my innuendoes against them, therefore, and have to confess that you are now just as far along in your painful search as you were five days ago.

  34. Looks, smiles, and innuendoes were freely exchanged at my expense.

  35. But neither their nature nor source was concern of his, as a witness; and his own sound understanding perceiving this, kept him back from expressing any surmises or innuendoes as to who were the actual authors of his great annoyances.

  36. He has been by innuendoes caricatured and metamorphosed to an extent which seems distinctly reprehensible.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innuendoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.