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Hint example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use hint in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for hint.

  • I merely hint. (10)
  • I give you the hint. (9)
  • Cecil took the hint. (10)
  • A slight hint will do. (10)
  • Redworth took the hint. (10)
  • The weather took the hint. (2)
  • Do not give him a hint of it. (4)
  • Talk to her: hint it and nod it. (10)
  • Do you hint it, if you get a chance. (10)
  • She breathed no hint of her triumph. (10)
  • She gave the most excruciating hint. (10)
  • She managed to hint at his authority. (10)
  • I suppose Pen gave you a hint about it. (9)
  • She would not stir a step, nor drop a hint. (4)
  • I could not credit his hint of it yesterday. (10)
  • Does she hint at rewarding him for his trouble? (10)
  • All he did for the present was to hint and tease. (10)
  • Ah, and then would he dare hint, as base men will? (10)
  • Finally he followed a hint that led him to Zürich. (12)
  • Not a hint to the detriment of her husband had passed. (10)
  • He had resolved to hint to Ferrand that he had better go. (8)
  • He visited these people, but no one could give him a hint. (12)
  • Perhaps you had better throw out a hint or so of apoplexy. (10)
  • At which hint Mrs. Chump gleefully turned and followed her. (10)
  • Her lips were shut, as to any hint at his treatment of her. (10)
  • If able to suggest a hint, Isabella could never understand it. (4)
  • Andrew failed to understand her, and act on the hint immediately. (10)
  • Indeed, I dare do no more than hint at these mysteries of feminine emotion. (10)
  • Clotilde kindled to the hint of his festival mood of Solomon at the banquet. (10)
  • He was quick to profit by any hint, and he never made the same mistake twice. (9)
  • She could not drag him to the word, or a hint of it necessary to her subject. (10)
  • Something stronger than a hint sent him off at a trot, hugging in his elbows. (10)
  • Something stronger than a hint sent him off at a trot, hugging in his elbows. (22)
  • And in what way had he offered a hint to bring on him the charge of punctilio? (10)
  • I shall be surprised at least if you ever received a hint of it, for I never did. (4)
  • A hint of his willingness in any direction, causes a perilous rush of his devotees. (10)
  • As it was, however, she only hazarded a hint, and the hint was lost. (4)
  • She smiled, and her smile was like the hint of the steel blade an inch out of sheath. (10)
  • The ladies, upon this hint, wrote to Wilfrid to obtain his concurrence and assistance. (10)
  • He gave me a quiet hint; I told him he was mistaken; he asked my pardon and said no more. (4)
  • At a hint of explanation from Edwards, the guttural gabble rattled up to the shrill vowels. (10)
  • Mrs. Mountstuart said it just as others utter empty nothings, with never a hint of a stress. (10)
  • The Countess spoke familiarly, but without any hint of an ancient acquaintance between them. (10)
  • Something in her manner, however, restrained him, and he contented himself with this final hint. (13)
  • Count Orso permits a half-tone of paternal severity to point his kindly hint that time is passing. (10)
  • He does not say this in his book, or hint it in any way; he gives you the facts, and leaves them with you. (9)
  • Thus the winter wore away, forlornly, and early in April the first hint of spring came into the dirty city. (13)
  • The proofs went back and forth between us till the author had profited by every hint and suggestion of the editor. (9)
  • Your account of Sir James is most satisfactory, and I mean to give Miss Frederica a hint of my intentions very soon. (4)
  • The indirectness of speech had been a shelter to her, permitting her to hint at more than she dared clothe in words. (10)
  • The indirectness of speech had been a shelter to her, permitting her to hint at more than she dared clothe in words. (22)
  • He was accordingly about to recommence, when a second and stronger hint suggested to him that it were safer to depart. (6)
  • Patrick hummed a bar or two of an air, to hint of his being fanatico per la musica, as a pretext for their departure. (10)
  • Upon the hint of having spoken disrespectfully or carelessly of the family and the family honours, he was quite indignant. (4)
  • A hint of that veiled episode, the Beckley campaign, made Rose pliant, as if she had woven for herself a rod of scorpions. (10)
  • Mrs. Lackstraw thought it prudent to hint at the latter idea to Jane while she decided in her generosity to embrace the former. (10)
  • A hint of an anecdote interested and enriched the stores of Mrs. Pagnell, so she capped it and partook of the infusion ruefully. (10)
  • Elizabeth, however, did not choose to take the hint, being well aware that a serious dispute must be the consequence of any reply. (4)
  • A hint or two, an undefinable flying allusion, gave the General to understand that Lady Camper had not been happy in her marriage. (10)
  • He could not hint at such an idea to the unsympathetic fellow, or rather, the burly antagonist to anything of the sort, beside him. (10)
  • Mollie was showered with attentions and compliments, some even going as far as to hint slyly at the attentions of Roderick Barclugh. (18)
  • She divined that his hint had encouraged him to bring the crisis nearer, and he that her comprehension had become tremblingly awake. (10)
  • Rosamund was too careful to hint that she would have expected succour and seconding from one or other of the better order of clergymen. (10)
  • Nicholas saw this was his time, and thought that in the melee, his hint might reach his mistress unobserved by the remainder of the company. (6)
  • Skepsey dropped a hint or two of his naughty proceedings drily aware that their untutored antipathy to the manly art would not permit of warmth. (10)
  • No urging, neither requests nor commands, could extract from him the slightest hint as to where he had passed the crucial days between Sunday and Thursday. (12)

Also see sentences for: allusion, clue, imply, insinuation, instance, intimate, intimation.

Definition of hint:

  • hint, hint, n. a distant or indirect allusion: slight mention: insinuation. | v.t. to bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion: to allude to. | v.i. to make an indirect or remote allusion: to allude. | adv. hint’ingly. | hint at, to allude to obscurely. (0)

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