How to Use intimation in a Sentence

intimation

noun

• Lately, those intimations have hit closer to home.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
• There is the visual memory of the shelves of books, but also an intimation of the weight, the heft of all the words in them.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• Mars contains past evidence of flowing water with an intimation of some kind of life.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• And in its brightest hours, Friday almost offered a tremor of an intimation of a hint that spring lay not so far off.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• The intimation seems to be that there might even be a human being hidden inside Daisy’s dossier.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
• The intimation was that Met officials knew—or should have known—that the coffin was looted, but bought it anyway.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• That these intimations of progress come slowly for Webster is part of the album’s relatable charm.
  — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
• Just as poignant as these reminders of the craftsman’s labor is the intimation that some of the spectacle remains hidden from view.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Today, merely the mention of her name is enough to render as absurd any intimation that women ought to avoid solo travel.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2021
• The intimations from his political lieutenants is that tonight will be very different.
  — Washington Post Opinions Staff, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• Comedy blends with intimations of the darkest aspects of our natures, and of everyday life.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2024
• Also, why would a plastic doll have intimations of mortality?
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
• The slots would open up randomly with no intimation or logic, and so the only way to get an appointment was to keep refreshing the website for hours.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 May 2021
• Hints of coffee and confectioner’s chocolate hit the palate alongside baking spice and maybe even an intimation of caraway in its rather rapid finish.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• Southgate, as was to be expected, seemed unruffled afterward by the intimation that his team had lacked ambition.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• The intimation was viewed as a threat by some organizations that represent Black farmers.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2021
• The official announcement did not mention any such official plans, but there are intimations that some type of bundling could be part of the strategy in the future.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025
• But across the entire novel, there are intimations of other ways to be, of other possibilities for the narrator.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
• The only downside of the intimation of human presence is confronting the reality that the other person is not present after all.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• Ole Miss took issue with that intimation, and Saban clarified his point Monday.
  — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 12 Oct. 2020
• The first intimation Kearny had of this was when a messenger from Commodore Stockton met him at Warner.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• At least Barbie was jolted into action by a stabbing intimation of mortality.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Whatever may be next, Thomas has illumined this world with grace, beauty, humor, and love, and surely that is an intimation of immortality.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• To model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting—to try to achieve, in a lab, an intimation of immortality.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 May 2021
• The problem is that all those scoops and curls and shadows, those flecks of luxury and intimations of depth, represent just the kind of decorative line items that get stricken from a conscientious budget.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• To modern eyes, this reads as an appealing universality, achieved through abstracting the particulars into intimations that are left up to the viewer to resolve.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• Cruz rejected the intimation that his holds have undermined national security.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2021
• Projections of photographs of the singer as a girl—giving a first intimation of how personal Weekends With Adele will actually be.
  — Hayley Maitland, Glamour, 18 Nov. 2022
• Ditto the flashbacks to her middle-class family back in the West African country, who can afford to hire armed security guards while intimations of civil war percolate around them.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024