insinuate
Example Sentences
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Her tales defy easy categorization—suspense shockers? ghost stories? horror sketches?—even as they insinuate themselves into our souls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The real purpose is to insinuate that this person doesn't deserve the basic presumption of privacy.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
Bud lives with his mom and subsequently keeps his “day job” as a limo driver but is driven to insinuate himself into some other writing gig.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024
The term had long been used in Haitian street slang to insinuate male dominance and power.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
They found the scientific establishment ridiculous and plodding, yet they knew how to insinuate themselves into it.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
