Sentence examples for intimating from inspiring English sources
The word "intimating" is correct and can be used in written English
It is used to describe suggesting, implying, or hinting something without saying it in so many words. Example sentence: She intimated that she wanted to go home early by looking pointedly at her watch.
verb
Present participle of intimate
Yet already he is making noises intimating that the referendum he, earlier this year, had promised Swedes may be delayed perhaps until as late as the autumn of 2004.
Then, in early 2003, the Americans appeared to have second thoughts about Mr Kurnaz, intimating that he was not being totally honest about his activities in Pakistan.
On the future of the negro he takes a strongly constitutional and Republican line, intimating (very properly) that the quasi-educational test, which has so effectually restricted negro suffrage, ought to be enforced not only against illiterate negroes, but against illiterate whites.
His father, a smoker, died of lung cancer, intimating to his son with his last breath that he really ought to stop; but Mr Carr was barely out of the hospital before he lit up again.
Greece's left-wing Syriza has been intimating that Greece has nothing to lose from exit and can therefore force the euro-zone core into accommodating its demands.
On June 7 , 1950 however, the Soviet government sent a memorandum to other interested governments intimating that it could not recognize any decisions on the regime for Antarctica taken without its participation.
In the case of sensations, the parallel temptation is to suppose that they are self-intimating.
Rather, in Locke's case, it seems that the analysis of consciousness allows only the inference that thoughts are self-intimating.
Compare that with Czechoslovakia, which on half-intimating that it might leave the Warsaw Pact in 1968 was promptly invaded by Soviet forces.
Conscious states are often held to be in some sense self-intimating, in that the mere having of them involves, requires, or implies some sort of representation or awareness of those states.
Shoemaker (1995) argues that beliefs as long as they are "available" (i.e., readily deployed in inference, assent, practical reasoning, etc)., which needn't require that they are occurrently conscious are self-intimating for individuals with sufficient cognitive capacity.
