How to Use suggestive in a Sentence

suggestive

adjective
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  • High sprays of foam tossed into the air and the wind was heavy with the damp, suggestive smell of fish.
    — Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • As in all great and suggestive books, Lawler and Reinsch get a few things wrong.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • The fact that some of this May’s flames were in areas that burned last year and are rich in peat is thus suggestive.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • There are some suggestive themes Coach Carr returns in the new movie (this time played by Jon Hamm).
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The steamy, suggestive lyrics raised some eyebrows in the early ’90s.
    — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 5 July 2018
  • As much a piece of art as functional design, the Strat took some of the Tele's suggestive curves and rounded off all the edges.
    — New Atlas, 10 July 2024
  • There’s lots of people who come in and make passes at her or say suggestive things.
    — Michael Avedon; Fashion Editor: Miguel Enamorado, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Experts say the reaction has less to do with the video's suggestive nature and more to do with the person at the center of it.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The secret is to opt for something a bit more thoughtful than suggestive.
    — Anny Choi, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2018
  • What are some of the trends in podcasts that are suggestive of how this industry is evolving?
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 6 June 2022
  • The photos show her in a variety of suggestive poses while in uniform on the plane.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The Taycan's hood slopes away too fast to see it from the cockpit, framing the road between its suggestive fenders.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 29 Jan. 2020
  • There was nothing in it that was more or less suggestive than what male performers have done for years.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Like the stories, the photographs are suggestive and have a kind of fabular air.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Plenty of faces from Hollywood and the fashion set noticed the suggestive photo and had a few words to say.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2019
  • The irony is that, at the time of DDT’s ban, the science linking its spray to human health was suggestive but inconclusive.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
  • Most of the remains are teeth and fragments of jaw bone, which can be suggestive of body size, but not definitive.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Few of the top earners openly identify as gay, and many post suggestive images of themselves that seem to cater to the male gaze.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • And to the chagrin of just about everyone, in 2016, the company released a rape-suggestive shirt.
    — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 24 July 2019
  • Her husband, Marvin, made a suggestive joke about the poet’s last name.
    — Mary Wisniewski, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • The imagery is suggestive of other ways of being, outside of Earth, known and unknown.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Itching and clogged sensation are suggestive of infection of the outside of the ear canal more so than the inside.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The photos featured plus-size women, posed in the same nude, suggestive way as Kim (and her perfume bottle).
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2018
  • Here the flip side to the British campaign of economic warfare against Germany is suggestive.
    — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But the dynamic goes well beyond the suggestive power of price.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 May 2021
  • The case arose when Bethany Austin found nude photos and suggestive text messages from her neighbor on her fiancé’s cell phone.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The robot utilizes a set of onboard sensors to scale the area ahead of it and look for concave rocks or other signs suggestive of a graspable area.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The original book that it’s based on, The Hellbound Heart, was suggestive of a female Pinhead, and the comic books also explored the idea.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In this show-and-tell, everything is suggestive of being 100% certain.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The Juno mission, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has been studying Europa more closely still, documenting ice walls, scarps, and ridges, all suggestive of a surface in constant motion.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024

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