INTIMATION in a Sentence

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For INTIMATION, below is one of 216 sentences:
Gladly did I take advantage of this intimation; and the minute I flung myself into a chair, by the fire, I nodded, and slept.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTIMATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intimation
 n.  an indirect suggestion
 n.  a slight suggestion or vague understanding
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  The faintest intimation from him, in the orchard, that some day things might be different and she would never have thought of going to Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  The instant the father seconded this intimation by an expressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
5  Called thus suddenly away, she left me without the slightest intimation of who my father was.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8  This was not an agreeable intimation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The Dodger nodded in the affirmative, and, shading the flame of the candle with his hand, gave Charley Bates a private intimation, in dumb show, that he had better not be funny just then.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43
12  He saw the master first, and made a hasty motion that she should be silent; which she obeyed, abruptly, on discovering the reason of his intimation.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Gladly did I take advantage of this intimation; and the minute I flung myself into a chair, by the fire, I nodded, and slept.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
15  You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Speaking in silence is the most intimate communication two beings can achieve.
2  This is an intimate knowledge of African religions.
3  He has an intimate knowledge of American literature.
4  I discussed with my intimate friends whether I would immediately have a baby.
5  Both of them felt that they had become very intimate.
6  The collection has been moved from its intimate setting to the British Museum.
7  He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.
8  She complained that intimate aspects of her personal life had been made public property.
9  The restaurant has a very intimate atmosphere.
10  The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
11  Did Dick intimate that Jane had bad breath when he asked if she'd like a breath mint?
12  It commanded its followers to be reticent � to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public.
13  The history of tobacco growing is intimately associated with colonialism and slavery.
14  You have to be willing to get to know yourself and your partner intimately.
15  It's instead that the media is beginning to understand beauty as a holistic proposition—something that is intimately connected to health.