How to Use inkling in a Sentence

inkling

noun
  • Still, that inkling is hard to shake.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • That was her first inkling that these weren’t meant for a thrift store’s shelves.
    — Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
  • That inkling isn’t too far off base as one different fan shared.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2022
  • Well, the prison portion was the first inkling of a second movie.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • My guess is that your best friend already has an inkling of how tight your budget is.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Still, there were signs at the end that Ruth had an inkling something wasn’t right.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 19 May 2017
  • But the inkling that big things were in store for the now pope even went back decades earlier.
    — Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025
  • Pooneh, for her part, did have some idea of what to make of it — if only an inkling at this point.
    — oregonlive, 6 July 2021
  • When the day arrived, Hesston had no inkling.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Lorne seemed to have an inkling that this is a character that can recur.
    — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • So easy that Helen and the younger Bernard had no inkling for years.
    — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
  • This was the first inkling that the book was destined for runaway success .
    — Martin Rees, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The first inkling that something was awry came later that morning.
    — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Smith, however, had an inkling.
    — EW.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This time its strategy gives an inkling of how to avoid the worst of the pitfalls.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The first inkling that something was wrong came when Jerome was about 14.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Aina seemed to have had some sort of inkling, but Naomi’s news confirmed it.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The first inkling that something was wrong came on a bus ride in 2012.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • This was my first inkling in more than 10 years that Jackie might be alive.
    — Ted Jackson, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • There was an inkling of a real idea here, and one that his employees were ready to fight for.
    — Lauren Puckett, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Bauer, who had five strikeouts through the first four innings, gave an inkling of what was to come in the fifth.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 30 May 2017
  • Did an inkling of doubt let Pirate Clark slip his control?
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • That was a long journey to get from the first inklings of this device to something that sort of works.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Bill Eubank Moran quickly had a dark inkling about this group.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • That was the first inkling of his small business, Doorstep Peppers.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2022
  • The schedule creates a sense of rhythm, an inkling of routine when day-to-day life can feel the same.
    — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Within a couple of years, Wheater had an inkling of what his future held.
    — Miriam Finder Annenberg, Chicago Reader, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The Bulldogs had an inkling of hope, but a score here probably puts the game away.
    — al, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The first inklings of this book were probably back around 2012.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Does Cho have an inkling of the franchise’s direction?
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

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