How to Use subliminal in a Sentence

subliminal

adjective

• The studio denied the existence of subliminal messages in the movie.
• I am skeptical that subliminal advertising actually works.
• The whole video is a subliminal ad for your live shows.
  — David Zucker, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
• And a lot of that made it on the record just like subliminal little sounds and stuff like that.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Is this just a fun music video or subliminal mind prep for an upcoming era?
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
• Part of my work is to help my clients uncover what that subliminal tape is saying.
  — Melinda Fouts, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The far-off storm flashing on the horizon expels my subliminal rage.
  — Chloe Bottero, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• Hawkeye plot holes aside, there’s a subliminal Ant-Man theme here.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021
• Maybe that was a subliminal one that seeped into my consciousness.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
• Drake smarted at the callout, and the two would trade subliminal barbs back and forth on-and-off-record for years to follow.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2024
• The connection between shells and home is sort of subliminal.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 9 Feb. 2021
• Gone are many of the subliminal shots towards Swift’s bevy of famous exes.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• There are these overt and subliminal messages that being partnered is the ideal.
  — Hilary Sheinbaum, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2020
• Through their sound, these short clips are meant to send subliminal messages to the brain that will somehow make high schoolers look better.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2023
• But James has posted at least a few subliminal messages to social media over the years.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 23 July 2017
• That includes subliminal cues that a local field isn’t the magnetic field.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• As with most trips to the press room podium, Saban had a few subliminal messages to players.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 4 Oct. 2022
• What unites these narrative threads is the not-so-subliminal threat of punishment for those who have stepped out of order.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 30 June 2021
• Direct and subliminal hatred has been geared towards me for many years solely because of the color of my skin.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 28 Feb. 2020
• His legacy as one of rap’s great subliminal assassins is one of the most impressive parts of his career.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2026
• His team installs artworks at the office, which are meant to have a subliminal influence on the workers.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
• Along the way, there was a subliminal backdrop of all the fear in the world, the suffering of so many, and the feeling that better days are ahead.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Apr. 2020
• Give in to the subliminal advertising and order a burger and fries.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Anyhow, this subliminal message to the Bond producer didn't do the trick.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 4 June 2025
• The artists have circled each other for more than a decade, slinging subliminal barbs back and forth since 2012.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• The researchers called the strange effect subliminal learning.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
• The two have had a rocky relationship over the years, which has played out via bar fights, petty social media posts and subliminal shots fired in lyrics.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 8 June 2019
• At high enough speeds, most people won’t be aware of any flicker or be affected by subliminal flicker, which may be the bigger issue.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• The subliminal message between the two cover shots didn’t go unnoticed.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
• There’s also the fact that a lack of sleep and steady nourishment can heighten our awareness of these strange, subliminal connections.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 18 May 2018