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Example sentences for "insinuate"

Lexicographically close words:
insignificant; insignis; insincere; insincerities; insincerity; insinuated; insinuates; insinuating; insinuation; insinuations
  1. For my own share, far be it from me to say or insinuate a word of disparagement against such characters as Hampden, Elliot, Pym; whom I believe to have been right worthy and useful men.

  2. You surely do not intend to insinuate that any one of the ship's company--?

  3. Take the devil in thy mind and believe him not; he would insinuate with thee but to make the sigh.

  4. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play!

  5. But me more good to see so great a lord Basely insinuate and send us gifts.

  6. It was true that someone had been so kicked that morning, but it was unkind of Miss Maynard to insinuate that he had any desire to kick her.

  7. We don't have to insinuate anything, Bet.

  8. I wanted to give you time to insinuate yourself into the heart of my dear little girl--but you and Thuillier upset my plans.

  9. It is not to Thuillier, who would refuse them, but to you that I shall, before long, pay the ten thousand francs which you insinuate I have applied to my own purposes.

  10. Mr. Randolph, I'm not trying to insinuate one damn thing.

  11. Are you trying to insinuate that Witch products--" The question was left hanging, but Bill Howard stood there looking his sponsor in the eye.

  12. By this I do not mean to insinuate a charge of gluttony, or indeed any other serious charge to the prejudice of the metaphysician.

  13. She chooses this moment to force from you your pretended opinion of one and another of her friends, and to insinuate the price of the articles of her dress you so much admire.

  14. Thus an eloquent orator, a touching letter, a vivid poem, may do more than volumes of the most definitive and convincing logic to insinuate an idea into men's minds.

  15. In the same way variations that reduce the unstressed syllables of a word readily insinuate themselves into the articulatory habits of a people.

  16. I don't insinuate any thing at all, doctor," answered the pale-looking man.

  17. You don't mean to insinuate that I'd forge a testimonial?

  18. These human beings have also the audacity to malign our character, to insinuate that we are fickle and undependable, besides being fierce and savage.

  19. Perhaps they would fancy that I had fallen off the quay into the river; but then Aunt Deb would most likely insinuate that such was not to be my case.

  20. Still more so are those cunning little ferrets which insinuate themselves into our abodes.

  21. They find every crack in the rocks where there are a few grains of the nourishing substance they care for, and insinuate themselves into its deepest recesses.

  22. Far from advancing toward their old familiarity the signor began to round up his innocent flock and insinuate it mildly from Herrick's polluted neighborhood.

  23. Did you dare to insinuate that the Arm itself would not have punished had it known?

  24. As to Lucilla, she is the last girl that would ever insinuate even to me, to whom she is so unreserved, that she had rejected so great an offer.

  25. Only I would insinuate that play is dangerous, and your income small.

  26. I neither know Sir Walter Boyer, nor any one who lives opposite to him, nor can in the least imagine what you would insinuate by twilight and a chair.

  27. The man bowed and looked sorry; then ventured slowly to insinuate that he did not deem the coachman perfectly sober, though not absolutely drunk.

  28. The reiterated admonitions in his Farewell Address show his deep fears that foreign influence would insinuate itself into our counsels through the channels of domestic dissension, and obtain a sympathy with our own temporary parties.

  29. It did not become me to doubt or to insinuate that the gentleman had either changed his sentiments, or that he had made up a set of constitutional opinions accommodated to any particular combination of political occurrences.

  30. Well, I don't want to hurt the feelings of a poor, shipwrecked sailor, nor insinuate nothing sech as no gentleman ought.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insinuate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accuse; allege; allegorize; arraign; article; assume; book; charge; cite; complain; confide; connote; crash; denote; denounce; elbow; encroach; entail; enter; entrench; finger; foist; get; gossip; hint; impeach; impinge; implant; implicate; imply; import; impose; impute; indicate; indict; infer; infiltrate; infringe; infuse; inject; inoculate; insert; insinuate; instigate; interfere; interpolate; interpose; intervene; intimate; introduce; intrude; invade; involve; libel; make; mean; mention; obtrude; penetrate; phase; plant; presume; presuppose; prompt; report; reproach; seem; suggest; suppose; task; taunt; tax; trench; trespass; twit