How to Use insinuate in a Sentence

insinuate

verb
  • In the past some of the same politicians have insinuated that the court does the government’s bidding.
    Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The tabloid also insinuated that the virus might have come from a lab in Wuhan, China.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But Slimane emotes all over the stage, and his insinuating vocals slide you right past the ick of it all.
    Glen Weldon, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • Wolff seems to take a lot of pleasure in insinuating that Trump can't read.
    Alyssa Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The two don’t kiss or even embrace each other, but the show insinuates romance may be in store for them.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Yet don't dare insinuate that this is nothing more than the same 41-41 plot as last season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • That’s not a knock on him, and that’s not to insinuate their unemployment is his fault.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The glistening melody, the insinuating bass line that adheres to the soaring chorus, the flecks of soul in the DNA of the song all mesh to form a bop that feels like love.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • This would insinuate that Larray's dad is no longer in his life.
    Kori Williams, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2020
  • To insinuate that, to say something other than that, is a statement by a fool.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2020
  • When the sheriff insinuates a South Side serpent did the deed, Jughead flips out.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The phrase, in and of itself, insinuates that blackness is something to overcome.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 9 May 2018
  • Hermione urges him to call his mom, and Alice insinuates that the Serpents were involved in the robbery/shooting.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That's not to insinuate that Grant could work miracles on his own.
    Morten Jensen, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The smell of burning insinuates itself into houses—there is no way to keep it out.
    Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
  • None of this, mind you, is meant to insinuate that bars with rowdy atmospheres don’t have their place; the Varnish just isn’t that kind of saloon.
    Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll, latimes.com, 31 May 2017
  • Some frustrated players have insinuated that the lack of deals is the result of orchestration on the part of the clubs.
    Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2018
  • As night follows day, so the past’s most disastrous ideas come back to seduce and insinuate.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020
  • In the post’s caption, Spear insinuates that her mother, Lynne Spears, either had something to do with paramedics arriving to the scene or with the story being leaked to the press.
    Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
  • The destructive part is the way the plan seeks to insinuate government cash and the rules that go with it into all of the major decisions of family life.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
  • My friend was insinuating that my life in big business would cast a shadow over my future prospects.
    Sally Susman, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Without clear evidence, Chuck decides to do the next best thing: try to insinuate what Prince has done and hope that the tides of public perception turn against him.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • My mother and sister cannot stop insinuating that my wife may have cheated on me.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
  • Cheryl clapped back at rumors insinuating her mother is to blame for her recent split from Liam Payne.
    Nicole Sands, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2018
  • The people wondering how the fans could ever forgive them, insinuating that people wouldn't even come back once the team was good.
    Mitch Goldich, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The eight months of travel that lay ahead, in stripping away the edifice of habit, into which all enduring lies insinuate themselves, would bring me to a truer self.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • The Silence of the Lambs is its ability to insinuate rather than spell things out, more gracefully even than the source material.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Hammer is a little blander as Lord, who was known to have a great talent for gossip and insinuating himself with the rich and famous.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Hauser then appeared to insinuate that Diesel does not treat people well.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
  • To insinuate, as many have, that Jones can't multitask is absurd.
    Meredith Cummings, AL.com, 19 Dec. 2017

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