Sentence examples for imply a question from inspiring English sources

As novelists, we should ask or imply a question at the beginning of the story, and then we should delay the answer.

Page to page, paragraph to paragraph, line to line — even within single sentences — imply a question first, and then answer it second.

And for those of us who woke to the most awful news imaginable, they imply a question we should probably have been asking long before this happened: how do we even begin to put England – and Wales – the right way up?

(You notice I haven't told you what the invention was yet? I implied a question, and didn't answer it. You're waiting. You're wondering, what did almost no one have in 1980 that almost everyone had in 1990? You're definitely going to read the next paragraph, aren't you? Thus the principle works in a micro sense, as well as in a macro one.

This implies a question we shall have to address: if universal access cannot assure equality in health status, because there are other important social determinants of population health and its distribution, then is universal access a requirement of justice after all?

They often have in their titles, or imply, a big question answered; or they have a flavour of self-help or how-to.

Doesn't a question imply a degree of courtesy or politeness?

The title of the National Rifle Association's monthly political magazine – America's First Freedom – implies a provocative question: Where would the freedoms of press, speech, and religion be without the bearing of arms that made such freedoms possible?

Well-posed hypotheses or questions imply a study design and a study design implies hypotheses or questions.

And her clipped replies to his relentless questions imply a decision to embark upon this vigil in solitude, thank you very much.

The questions imply a full spectrum of emotions, from tenderness to curiosity to anger, and speak volumes about one of the most primal of relationships.