SUGGEST in a Sentence

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For SUGGEST, below is one of 411 sentences:
The sofa in question, and the apartment peopled by its monstrous mates, served at length to suggest the turn of Selden's reply.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUGGEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suggest
 v.  put forward for consideration
 v.  bring before a person's mind indirectly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When the last forkful of pork and chicken and mutton had been eaten, Scarlett hoped the time had come when India would rise and suggest that the ladies retire to the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  The replacing of these posts was one bit of repair work Scarlett did not suggest and, if the negroes knew why, they kept their silence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Scarlett seldom refused, no matter how distasteful the idea might be, for she always hoped to have an opportunity to suggest tactfully that they do their trading at Frank's store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5  The sofa in question, and the apartment peopled by its monstrous mates, served at length to suggest the turn of Selden's reply.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  Use a big window at the back, with a cyclorama of a blue that would simply hit you in the eye, and just one tree-branch, to suggest a park below.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  The frivolous teacher had come to accept Carol as of her own youth, and though school had begun she rushed in daily to suggest dances, welsh-rabbit parties.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and suggest another.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
9  This trick did not suggest duplicity or secretiveness, but merely long habit, as with the horse.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
10  "Then give them their bridles, and let them range the woods," Heyward ventured to suggest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  A round, black, shining face is hers, so glossy as to suggest the idea that she might have been washed over with white of eggs, like one of her own tea rusks.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  On being shown her chamber, she was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass the night on the mangle in the laundry.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
13  Anne was considering whether she should venture to suggest that a gown, or a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a knock at the door suspended everything.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  In the captain's cottage she could suggest mansions she had never seen.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
15  It was a curious way of managing it, but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
16  She had the gall to suggest that I might supply her with information about what Steve was doing.
17  I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
18  It is expected that the report will suggest some major reforms.
19  Exit polls suggest a big Labour majority, but the true picture will only be known after the count.
20  Fossil records suggest that the region was covered in water until relatively recently.
21  I suggest you ask him some specific questions about his past.
22  I suggest you take a taxi.
23  The Minister established a commission to suggest improvements in the educational system.
24  They brought in an interior designer to suggest colour schemes for the house.
25  I suggest a tour of the museum.
26  It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
27  It would be impertinent to suggest that he was always wrong.
28  It would be seriously misleading to suggest that television has no effect on children.
29  Economic indicators suggest that a recovery is on the way.
30  Point taken, but nowhere did we suggest that this yacht's features were unique.