Sentence examples for mere hint from inspiring English sources

Investors were quick to sell on the mere hint of a credit downgrade.

Yet the reaction touched off by the mere hint of less QE also underlines the risks of withdrawing stimulus prematurely.

There, analysts are treated like senators, and markets are moved with the mere hint of a merger.

Although Ellen is unafraid, the mere hint of scandal drives high-society New York to conspire against her.

Unlike those solid American pines, these namby-pamby Vietnamese palms buckle at the mere hint of machine-gun fire.

Take diving, for instance, the bane of rinkside fundamentalists, who ridicule soccer stars for writhing in fake agony at the mere hint of a trip.

Dr. Kim said that the doctors were seeing not mere hints or flashes of personality.

There is an idea that rules are mere hints, to be applied when useful.

Yet all these references were kept in the background, as mere hints, as Ms. Burton brought forward a fresh silhouette.

Sexuality is at the center of "Orange": the creators pluck mere hints from the memoir and spin them into full, splashy plots.

These moments of drama and inexplicable emotional currents are mere hints; Mr. Peck has the great gift of knowing how to subtract.