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Example sentences for "suggested"

Lexicographically close words:
sugaring; sugarplums; sugars; sugary; suggest; suggester; suggesteth; suggestibility; suggestible; suggesting
  1. The types of snowshoes suggested in the chapter on snowshoe and toboggan travel are the types also best suited to dog and komatik work.

  2. Waterproof canvas is suggested for the bag, not to protect the utensils but because anything but waterproofed material will absorb moisture and become watersoaked in rainy weather, adding materially to the weight of the outfit.

  3. The above is merely suggested as a basis.

  4. The clothing suggested in the chapter on snowshoe and toboggan travel is equally well suited to travel with dogs and komatik.

  5. I have suggested balloon silk for the small food bags to fit into the larger waterproofed canvas bags, not only because it does not absorb moisture, but because there will be no possibility of the contents sifting through the cloth.

  6. But the plan was only suggested to be dismissed.

  7. I had brought him three or four dozen oranges and suggested that Mabel would like some of the fruit.

  8. When citizens met to choose a name, George Riggins, a young Australian suggested the new town be given a name identified with gold the world over.

  9. They danced and Shorty suggested a stroll in the moonlight.

  10. Ballarat chuckled but no one suggested a lynching party.

  11. It didn't cost much but somebody suggested that in order to reimburse me, two bits should be taken out of every jackpot.

  12. Then Charlie called up the Judge and suggested Rosie have a year's vacation in the county jail.

  13. I suggested a trip to a doctor at Trona instead.

  14. Each suggested the place that had impressed him more than others.

  15. The "tongue oil" had been disposed of when Blackie suggested that we step over to his place, a short distance around the point of a hill.

  16. One-eyed Casey--no relation, but long a friend, suggested a wake until the grave was dug.

  17. Chop his feet off," suggested Casey, "and drive him into the ground with a doublejack.

  18. A few months later, the bride suggested that a trip out would make her love the lotus life even more and so in the summer of 1898 she tearfully departed.

  19. So he was in a pleasant mood when somebody suggested a spot of poker.

  20. Furnace Creek of his discovery and suggested that Gower investigate.

  21. The plan which first suggested itself to the young Inca was the very obvious one of fishing for them with a baited hook and line, even as sharks were fished for.

  22. Without doubt, Senor," answered the Indian in a tone of surprise, as though he wondered at the slight hint of incredulity suggested by the question.

  23. I notice it thus, because it suggested to me a reflection.

  24. I tell you what's the next best thing," suggested Jake Humphreys.

  25. There, you see the nonsense o' giving you as much rations as the others," suggested Alf Russell.

  26. Probably they kin tell us where the rijimint is," suggested Shorty.

  27. He would have suggested to Shorty to get the other, but he could not bring himself to speak to his partner.

  28. Orderly, we need some more cartridges," suggested Shorty.

  29. Mules is kickin' because the teamsters don't wash their hands and put on white aprons when they come to wait on 'em," suggested Shorty.

  30. The interminable forest suggested to him dreams of bear, deer, buffalo, elk, and all the animals he had read about.

  31. Probably Sarjint Hennessey has some rations that he kin give us," suggested Shorty, who was genuinely sorry for the poor boys.

  32. Kelsey straightened up on his seat and assumed a business air, as if these words had suggested an idea to him.

  33. But if there was, his glass failed to reveal the fact, and this suggested an idea to him.

  34. The small circle was possibly suggested by the spurred circle which was used for ten.

  35. What suggested the form for the zero is, of course, purely a matter of conjecture.

  36. The twenty is evidently a ligature of two tens, and this in turn suggested a kind of radix, so that ninety was probably written in a way reminding one of the quatre-vingt-dix of the French.

  37. As will presently be seen, their forms may have been suggested by those used in Egypt, or in Eastern Persia, or in China, or on the plains of Mesopotamia.

  38. It is possible that one of the forms of ancient abacus suggested to some Hindu astronomer or mathematician the use of a symbol to stand for the vacant line when the counters were removed.

  39. It has been suggested that possibly these dots, sprinkled like dust above the numerals, gave rise to the word [.

  40. On the basis of general external characters Tanner suggested that Hyla macrotympanum was related to H.

  41. Oehlenschlager has explained what it was that suggested to him the leading idea of his poem.

  42. Put 'em under the pump," suggested a hot-pieman.

  43. As he wrote down a careful list of the things they were to take in their swags he looked up and actually suggested that she should wire to her uncle for the money so that they need not waste a day more.

  44. She frowned at him and shyly suggested that Christ, in that case, shared Tagore's disadvantage.

  45. Have to have a wash," the stationmaster told himself unhappily, and suggested the same course to the driver and guard as there was a lady to dinner.

  46. Aunt Janet had not suggested coming with her: it had not occurred to her as the sort of thing that was necessary, nor had Marcella given it a thought.

  47. Saville, by no means liking the difficult and perilous path which was to lead only to a very cold place, soon halted; and suggested to Lady Charlotte the propriety of doing the same.

  48. Ch'hatra or cháta has been suggested as the derivation of satrapaes (exatrapaes in Theopompus), and it seems a probable derivation enough.

  49. Some profound investigators have supposed that large leaves tied to the branching extremities of a bough suggested the first idea of the invention.

  50. A national bank becomes a necessity to their readier solution, be they suggested by this or any other item of expense.

  51. What train of ideas, for example, is suggested to the average reader by the Roll-Chair Company?

  52. It was something that irresistibly suggested death.

  53. Linda had been at the Lowries' two weeks now, but they were acutely distressed when she suggested that her visit was unreasonably prolonged.

  54. At the death of Amelia Lowrie, soon after, Arnaud had suggested a temporary period in the house she remembered with pleasure; and, making small alterations with the months and years, they had tacitly agreed to remain.

  55. The blessings of peace might permit you more leisure with the ladies," I suggested smilingly.

  56. Perhaps," suggested Captain Fancher, "the wench has gone a-gypsying after the convoy.

  57. If they find errors, it may be that we have seen them, and preferred the seeming error to the suggested correction; if not, we can accept criticism from others as gracefully as from each other.

  58. These things and the like are suggested to each one of us by his wife (i.

  59. No objections against Infant Baptism or problems that it suggested were pressing for attention.

  60. She was jealous of the Martha, and no suggested man had satisfied her.

  61. The hands were now a woman's hands, and Sheldon grinned to himself as his fancy suggested that some night he must lie outside the mosquito-netting in order to have Joan apply soothing fomentations in the morning.

  62. Cardenio proposed to carry out the scheme they had begun, and suggested that Luscinda would act and support Dorothea's part sufficiently well.

  63. The London edition of 1738, commonly called Lord Carteret's from having been suggested by him, was not a mere edition de luxe.

  64. It was probably the ransacking of the Don's library and the discussion on the books of chivalry that first suggested it to him that his idea was capable of development.

  65. This experiment practically sealed the verdict on the new theory, but it also suggested something more.

  66. He suggested also that the air might play an important part in some processes of calcination, which, as we shall see, was proved to be true by Lavoisier late in the eighteenth century.

  67. He had dared to deny the existence of a devil, and had suggested that the case of a patient who lay in a trance for three days might help to explain some miracles, like the raising of Lazarus.

  68. Indeed, it has even been suggested that the Christians of an earlier day removed the records of pagan thought.

  69. In 1644 he published a tract on the properties of the cycloid in which he suggested a solution of the problem of its quadrature.

  70. This idea was suggested to him while performing the familiar experiment of producing a spark on the surface of a bowl of water by touching it with a charged glass rod.

  71. He believed that contagious diseases were carried by the air, and suggested that eruptions of the earth, such as those made by earthquakes, might send up "venomous exhalations" that produced diseases.

  72. The general idea had been suggested by Galileo; or, better perhaps, the equal time occupied by the successive oscillations of the pendulum had been noted by him.

  73. It is really a steam-gun, rather than a steam-engine, and it is not unlikely that the study of the action of gunpowder may have suggested it to Leonardo.

  74. Haydon suggested moreover what I cannot but think the needless and regrettable mutilation of the sonnet by leaving out the words after 'workings' in the last line but one.

  75. Keats was a close and conscious student of the musical effects of verse, and the practice of Spenser is said to have suggested to him a special theory as to the use and value of the iteration of vowel sounds in poetry.

  76. It is not quite certain who wrote them, but they were most probably the work either of Lockhart or of Wilson, suggested and perhaps revised by the publisher William Blackwood, at this time his own sole editor.

  77. The obvious superiority of Hyperion to the Vision no doubt at first sight suggested the conclusion to which these editors, following Lord Houghton, had come.

  78. Steedman thereupon suggested that he should pay the enemy back in his own coin.

  79. It suggested a skeleton over whose yellow bones spreads that phosphoric gas which burns and puts forth fumes in the darkness like a blue light, restless and terrible.

  80. Seeing the pleasure she took in these legends and learning that no complete English translation existed, I suggested that we unite in a “Becquer Book.

  81. The listeners on the chaser tubes presently heard sounds which suggested that their enemy was perhaps resorting to this manoeuvre.

  82. The captain told us that two guns were concealed in this structure; he suggested that we should walk all around it and see if we could point out from a close inspection the location of the guns.

  83. Since at Delaware Bay pilots for large ships were taken on just south of the Five Fathom Bank Light, I suggested that it was not unlikely that the U-151 would attempt to lay mines in that vicinity.

  84. It is hardly surprising that our methods impressed certain of our critics as tedious and ill-conceived, and that a mere glance at a small map of the North Sea suggested a far more reasonable solution of the problem.

  85. They were long and slender; the sunlight, falling upon their graceful sides and steel decks, made them brilliant objects upon the water; and their business-like guns and torpedo tubes suggested efficiency and readiness.

  86. Instead of the sticks of a fan, the comparison which I have suggested with our own coast, we now have to deal with the neck of a bottle.

  87. Little in the newly assembled group suggested the majesty of the sea.

  88. The tiny fleet hardly suggested to the observer anything in the nature of military operations; they looked more like a group of motor launches out for a summer cruise.

  89. If the First Lord," he said, "had suggested that we should not build submarines because the problems which control them are not yet solved, I should have hesitated to combat his argument.

  90. We rented this house furnished, just as it stood; a first glimpse of it, however, suggested refined domesticity rather than naval operations.

  91. Yet there was something about the Captain which suggested the traits that had already made it possible for him to sink three submarines, and which afterward added other trophies to his record.

  92. One day Admiral Bayly suggested that we should go out in the harbour and visit one of these vessels lying there preparatory to sailing on a cruise.

  93. Another idea suggested by a glance at the map was the construction of a barrage across the North Sea from the Orkneys to the coast of Norway.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suggested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assumed; implicated; indicated; inferred; involved; meant; presumed; presupposed; supposed; tacit; unspoken


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    suggested that; suggested the