give an inkling
Example Sentences
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Captain Adam Foote even had a long chat with Forsberg on the plane ride home and never once did the Swedish star give an inkling that his bothersome right foot might be acting up again.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2011
Later when correspondents suggested that other statesmen with whom he conferred might give an inkling, Hell-&-Maria shrilled: "They are not telling anything about what I have been doing, because nobody knows that except myself!"
From Time Magazine Archive
"Potatoes, with a 7% cut in acreage, a 24% smaller production, but a gross crop value about 2½times that of 1924, give an inkling of what ultimate curtailment on the farms might mean."
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew Hugo and helped him over the difficult places and cut him short as soon as he had made enough of his speech to give an inkling of what he was demanding.
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
I went as far as the lower level station in the hope of finding some newspaper that might give an inkling of the position, and I found nothing at all.
From With Zola in England by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
