"distinctive hint" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in a sentence when you are referring to something that suggests or implies something else. For example: "The distinctive hint of herbs in the air suggested she was cooking something special."
Doubles from $95 After decades of neglect, this handsome Victorian-style building in the heart of the Mount Vernon neighbourhood reopened in 2010, though its original red-brick facade, interior spiral stairwell, and distinctive twin turrets hint at the hotel's original founding in 1881.
These findings hint at distinctive pathological mechanisms, leading to brain region and neuronal subtype specific tau mislocalization in tauopathies.
"Love Never Felt So Good" retains Jackson's distinctive disco sound with hints of Bruno Mars'retroro' style.
It's a distinctive piece, with just a hint in its harmonic structure of the Hungarian Gypsy music the composer always found so appealing.
Schiff notes that in the 30s Carter existed in Copland shadow, with "only the occasional hint of a distinctive voice, let alone musical genius".
Also unlike modern-day entoprocts, C. tylodes was covered with distinctive, scalelike features called sclerites a hint, the scientists say, that such armor may have been more common among ancestral entoprocts than has been previously recognized.
The high G+C content of mycobacterial genome [30], presence of a large number of sigma factors [31], varied promoter architecture [32] and slow rate of transcription [33], [34] hint at some distinctive role of Mfd in M. tuberculosis.
The opera reflects the influence of Dvorak and Smetana but hints at the distinctive vocal writing (which imitates spoken Czech cadences) of Janacek's mature operas, like "Jenufa".
Channel 4's statement acknowledges the show's distinctive tone and vision, and hints that it's down to a budget issue – there's only so much drama they can make at any one time.
There are hints of Dickens's distinctive prose, but not so heavy as to overwhelm a young reader.
