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Example sentences for "suggestive"

Lexicographically close words:
suggestible; suggesting; suggestio; suggestion; suggestions; suggestively; suggestiveness; suggests; sugred; sui
  1. There is something suggestive in the juxtaposition of facts, and it is not at all impossible that the commencement of the fifth persecution was a compliment to Clement of Alexandria.

  2. I like to watch her when she fancies herself alone, as I then often find in her most trivial actions a something interesting or suggestive for her future improvement.

  3. A meeting between Origen and Tertullian is a very suggestive idea; the only misfortune is, that we have no warrant whatever for supposing it beyond the bare possibility.

  4. In like manner, a pleasurable sight or a suggestive thought will quicken the pulse of an intelligent man, whereas his stupid brother may be the spectator of festal or solemn scenes and the auditor of noble eloquence with scarcely a change.

  5. Here, at least, is naturalistic art, against which the sticklers for idealism can offer no objection, so beautiful and appropriate are the designs, and so suggestive of the necessity of going back to nature for inspiration.

  6. It is the most extreme form of these politico-social questions which, in each historical period, possesses the most intense suggestive power.

  7. On Christmas eve we three met again, and my notes inform me that MacShaughnassy brewed some whiskey-punch, according to a recipe of his own, a record suggestive of a sad Christmas for all three of us.

  8. Geibel placed his hand encouragingly on Fritz's shoulder, and the lieutenant bowed low, accompanying the action with a harsh clicking noise in his throat, unpleasantly suggestive of a death rattle.

  9. The girl we placed in the kitchen, where she leant against the dresser in an attitude suggestive of drink, embracing the broom we had given her with maudlin affection.

  10. Unless your faith be deep-rooted and of most vigorous growth, it is the safer way not to turn aside into this region so suggestive of miserable doubt.

  11. I never thought of listening to the speech, because I knew it all beforehand in twenty repetitions from other lips, and was aware that it would not offer a single suggestive point.

  12. Humphrey lived till 55, and died suddenly, under circumstances highly suggestive of poisoning by his enemies.

  13. One may go farther and quote the French claim that the colour scheme of Louis XVI was intensely suggestive and personal, while the Empire colouring was literal and impersonal.

  14. The friendship of David and Jonathan seems to be suggestive of that beautiful accord which shall exist between the glorified Church and the earthly princes who shall be next to them in the Kingdom of God.

  15. To clusters of grapes--Suggestive of food and refreshment for the hungry, when they shall suck and be satisfied, milk out and be delighted.

  16. This building was furnished throughout with the products of Canadian factories and decorated with the work of Canadian artists, all suggestive of the natural wealth, progress, and enterprise of the country.

  17. It should be observed, however, that many very interesting devices for teaching children, many suggestive modifications of kindergarten material and exercises, and many excellent photographs showing classes at work, were executed by women.

  18. Would their work, as shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it was placed on equal terms of comparison with that of men, prove helpful or suggestive to those interested in the advancement and success of women's work?

  19. The cry of the pursuers had a suggestive sound; occasionally as one fell the shriek that reached Stannum plucked at his heart, for it was a cry of human distress.

  20. Obviously suggestive this of the hypothesis that they were satellites, not thrown off by revolution, like the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and our own solitary moon, but gradually and peacefully detached by divergent variation.

  21. A study of Darwins book, and a general glance at the present state of the natural sciences, enable us to gather the following as among the most suggestive and influential.

  22. An assembly room with a raised dais, and mural decorations suggestive of Danish industry and commerce, is in the northeast corner.

  23. Four airy pipers, suggestive at least of the song of the cicada on long, hot afternoons, support the fountain figure.

  24. It must be made as suggestive as possible or it will fail.

  25. The Medical Society for the Study of Suggestive Therapeutics" was constituted at the close of 1906.

  26. A suggestive example[112] of the corruption introduced by a petty Itacism may be found in Rev.

  27. I have retained this valuable and suggestive passage in the form in which the Dean left it.

  28. Martin's talk had been just suggestive enough to start his brain to working, disturbed as he was by so many other things.

  29. His frame was spare but suggestive of the long muscles of the New Englander which do not show but which work on and on with seemingly indestructible energy.

  30. Not only was the picture pleasant to the eye, but it was suggestive to the imagination.

  31. Hughes embodies much curious and suggestive information in her account of a "Residence in China.

  32. It is a very humorous and suggestive account of the manners of clod-hopping England as engaged about the Harvest-home supper in Suffolk and Norfolk, here entitled the Horkey.

  33. The experience of the self-made Franklin is very suggestive as to the drinking habits of working men in London 160 years ago.

  34. Over the door of the house a suggestive image was either painted, or represented in stone or marble: one of these signs may be seen to this day in Pompeii.

  35. This touch is very suggestive of the power of the old worldling, who could manoeuvre with young people as well as Major Pendennis.

  36. The insane ingenuity of the biographer would be quite capable of seeing in this a most suggestive foreshadowing of the sexual dualism which is so ably defended in Fifine at the Fair.

  37. A process to turn good flax into bad cotton had, however, on the face of it, not much to recommend it to public acceptance; and Claussen's process therefore remains only as an interesting and suggestive experiment.

  38. These are the most delightful and suggestive sculptor's notes in existence; in them it was his habit to set down the leading and expressive lines, and generally no more, of every group that struck his fancy.

  39. Her hands were large and pudgy, her feet afforded broad foundations for the structure above them, and her gait was not suggestive of any popular style.

  40. Smelts should be stiff and silvery, with a delicate perfume faintly suggestive of cucumber.

  41. It possesses no taste nor odor save the delightful and characteristic aroma which identifies Crisco, and is suggestive of its purity.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suggestive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; admissible; allegorical; allusive; authentic; bawdy; blue; broach; certain; circumstantial; conclusive; connotative; convincing; cumulative; damning; decisive; demonstrative; denotative; determinative; diagnostic; documentary; documented; eloquent; erotic; evidential; evocative; expressive; extended; eyewitness; factual; figurative; filthy; final; firsthand; foul; graphic; hearsay; ideographic; idiosyncratic; imaginative; implicit; improper; incontrovertible; indecent; indicating; indicative; indisputable; individual; inferential; insinuating; intelligible; interpretable; ironic; irrefutable; irresistible; juicy; lewd; material; meaningful; meaty; metaphorical; mindful; naming; nasty; obscene; overwhelming; peculiar; pithy; pointed; pregnant; presumptive; provocative; prurient; purple; racy; readable; redolent; reliable; reminiscent; representative; retrospective; risky; risque; salty; scabrous; semantic; sententious; sexy; shady; signalizing; significant; spicy; stimulate; substantial; suggestive; sure; symbolic; symbolical; symptomatic; telling; true; typical; valid; vivid; weighty; wicked