How to Use insinuate in a Sentence

insinuate

verb
Definition of insinuatenext
Synonyms for insinuatenext
  • 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
  • Wolff seems to take a lot of pleasure in insinuating that Trump can't read.
    — Alyssa Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To insinuate, as many have, that Jones can't multitask is absurd.
    — Meredith Cummings, AL.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • However, that's not to insinuate the starters can't handle their roles.
    — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • To say this Iron Bowl rivalry spice is back would insinuate this caldron somehow cooled.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Oswald is charming and charismatic to a fault, insinuating himself into the stage role Guy hoped to play.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • All of the trainers The Courier Journal spoke with felt that by announcing these initiatives, the track insinuated that trainers were to blame.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
  • And Lewis very gently insinuates that Ellison, in over her head, might have made some very bad decisions.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
  • With that very real threat looming over our heads, some may ask — as has been insinuated in some recent articles and chatter — was the strike worth it?
    — Mahyad Tousi, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023

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