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
The term had long been used in Haitian street slang to insinuate male dominance and power.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
The messages on her album and their visual analogs are accomplices in this subtle cultural tyranny but they also at least insinuate a desire to be subversive, to break the curse of complicity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 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.
