How to Use suggestive in a Sentence

suggestive

adjective
  • Plenty of flesh and suggestive looks are seen as guests eye both the wildlife and their guides.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025
  • High sprays of foam tossed into the air and the wind was heavy with the damp, suggestive smell of fish.
    — Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Keeping to the edgy theme, the mom of four styled the suggestive top half of her look with satiny trousers.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There’s lots of people who come in and make passes at her or say suggestive things.
    — Michael Avedon; Fashion Editor: Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But, though suggestive, these studies were not large enough to be compelling.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The secret is to opt for something a bit more thoughtful than suggestive.
    — Anny Choi, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2018
  • There was nothing in it that was more or less suggestive than what male performers have done for years.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2020
  • As in all great and suggestive books, Lawler and Reinsch get a few things wrong.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • To be clear, none of the suggestive dog drinks contain alcohol.
    — Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The fact that some of this May’s flames were in areas that burned last year and are rich in peat is thus suggestive.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Which seems a suggestive concept.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
  • What are some of the trends in podcasts that are suggestive of how this industry is evolving?
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 6 June 2022
  • Our last glimpse of Crusoe is equally suggestive.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • All of this is suggestive of changes across this section of America.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • The steamy, suggestive lyrics raised some eyebrows in the early ’90s.
    — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 5 July 2018
  • With its whispery, suggestive lyrics, the song sold more than 1 million copies, reached No.
    — Dinitia Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • The photos show her in a variety of suggestive poses while in uniform on the plane.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Kat, 22 There was a customer who came in every day and said things in a suggestive tone.
    — Kate Beckman, Cosmopolitan, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But the dynamic goes well beyond the suggestive power of price.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 May 2021
  • Her husband, Marvin, made a suggestive joke about the poet’s last name.
    — Mary Wisniewski, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • And what made the clip even more jarring to the average eye is that Sweeney was in a suggestive pose at the time.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
  • Most of the remains are teeth and fragments of jaw bone, which can be suggestive of body size, but not definitive.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Proofs are littered with suggestive ellipses.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This is interesting and highly suggestive of the notion that black holes, and not stars, came first.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Like the stories, the photographs are suggestive and have a kind of fabular air.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Matt notes the strangeness of seeing his father amidst flashing lights, techno hip-hop and throngs of suggestive dancers.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Spacek’s voice gets a little deeper, her mannerisms more suggestive.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Experts say the reaction has less to do with the video's suggestive nature and more to do with the person at the center of it.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Few of the top earners openly identify as gay, and many post suggestive images of themselves that seem to cater to the male gaze.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • That was a theme throughout the game and was suggestive of the balance issues that have stalked Germany for most of the last decade.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026

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