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Example Sentences

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We had no inkling at the time what the public response would be - but it was soon clear that something astonishing was happening.

From BBC

"There’s not even the smallest inkling of proof," the former president said in an interview in 2018, adding that the allegations had made his life a living hell.

From Reuters

"It was incredible, I had absolutely no inkling when I got the phone call that the King personally chose me along with some other people to write something for the Coronation," she says.

From BBC

“It was my very first inkling of how much suffering was out there, all over the world, that religion was not coping with,” he told The Times in 1996.

From New York Times

The first inklings that exercise remodels brains and minds came decades ago in mouse studies.

From Washington Post