How to Use insinuation in a Sentence

insinuation

noun
  • I resent her insinuation that I can't do it without her help.
  • He criticizes his opponents by insinuation rather than directly.
  • And then there will be all sorts of insinuations about why this happened.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 13 May 2025
  • There’s this insinuation that people just want to get out of work.
    — Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The insinuation is this is something, by the way, that’s wrong.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Trump’s inveigling and insinuations make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 June 2017
  • Was the insinuation that the governor hadn’t even brought his gun?
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • People of color know the sting of a certain type of insinuation.
    — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • There was also insinuation by some that the city was feeling pressured to move the project forward.
    — Lauren Costantino february 11, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Evelyn took this as an insinuation that an old lady should be happy for the company of a small, odd boy.
    — Marisa Silver, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The Plums prickle at the lap-dog insinuation.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • Buch dismissed the report’s insinuations as baseless but did confirm that her husband had a stake in the fund.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The insinuation is that these standards would delay a vaccine past the election.
    — Mark McClellan, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The insinuation was that Atletico lacked the money to finance both.
    — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But facts don’t stand in the way of the Sun Sentinel’s insinuation and whispering.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • She was upset by the insinuation and claimed Hassan was fully aware of her past incident.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 9 June 2025
  • Or, again, maybe the allegations and insinuations or even the criminal charges aren’t true.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • But scrutiny must be grounded in facts — not insinuation.
    — Helen Amos, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Her insinuation about Postle, though subtle, had the potential to cause a stir.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Tony is disgusted by the insinuation, but his parade of girlfriends and crushes proves Melfi was right.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Windhorst’s unspoken insinuation is that the Jazz are up to something big.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The mere insinuation that the concept is present in curriculum has drawn dozens to school board meetings and legislative hearings.
    — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • The insinuation that anti-fascist activists set fires on the West Coast is also false.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than an attempt to smear a coach, a program, and an entire university.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Lil Nas, tickled by the insinuation, called out Benzino for not knowing how to explain a kiss to his kids.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The insinuation of the mid-1980s in costume and design must not be overdone.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The obvious insinuation from the white mother was that the little Black girl didn’t belong in ballet.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Power poles were leaning at strange angles, tons of trash and branches were piled on the curbs, and in many cases, naked studs provided mere insinuations of the roofs that had blown away.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • But the insinuation that this would be a negative, or such a negative that adding one f the best talents in the country wouldn’t be worth it, yes, that is patently absurd.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In response, Twitter users questioned the department's initial insinuation that the books may have been resold.
    — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021

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