How to Use subtext in a Sentence

subtext

noun

• This is part of the subtext of the idea of being self-taught.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• Race is a subtext that runs through the case against Trump.
  — Camila Dechalus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• No mention of the breakup was in the video, but the text — and subtext — was all in its caption.
  — Nardine Saadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
• And then there was the issue of class, the thrumming subtext of her work and her life.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The subtext of that sentence is the need for optimism among the troops.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
• There was a lot of subtext in Alex for Qualley to convey as well.
  — Thr Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
• And here’s where the subtext of Wilde’s recipe-posting gets truly … well, wild.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• Her joyful comedy has a dark side, which shows around the edges of jokes, in the subtext.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 July 2022
• The problem for viewers is that the jokes don’t crackle and the silences lack subtext.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• Love, love, love the subtext on gender bias and stereotypes.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2022
• At least unless the jury picks up on a subtext that isn’t quite the one Ms. Holmes has been selling.
  — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• The subtext, of course, is the Buckhead cityhood movement.
  — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 31 Jan. 2022
• Strong: That was something to just set the subtext — put that in your unconscious and see what comes out.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Somerville adds that both Patel and Lawler understood that the subtext to this scene was key.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2022
• The script is standard sports-movie fare without much subtext.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The subtext, and sometimes the in-your-face text is that exercise is mostly about weight loss and how one looks.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
• The subtext of British history is the friction between monarch and heir.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The story is still being written, but the subtext here is classic.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
• Part of the original subtext of the story was that Ebenezer Scrooge was Scottish.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
• The fact that this is the legacy of a Jewish woman largely becomes subtext.
  — Vanessa Friedman and Max Lakin, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• That real-life subtext is hard to ignore, and at times seems like a scrim between us and the fictional world.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
• The subtext to collectors: Report those goods, or else.
  — Kelli María Korducki, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
• With Bob Fosse's Dancin' that subtext is freed up to prance and pounce as text with a cast across the spectrums of gender and identity.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Credit goes to Coogler, who opted to make the heartbreak and shock that fans were feeling over Boseman’s death a subtext of the story.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
• The dictionary was used to assess the emotional subtext of the tweets Jones amassed, as well as a sample of 6 million tweets posted on the day of the eclipse.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• But keen-eyed Disney observers could not ignore the subtext.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
• The subtext for the discussion was the Alex Botelho incident.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Community needs and, and cutting them back a, a reader and astute reader, um, sent a note to me on, in the subtext.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2022
• In fact, the subtext of much of its growth narrative was the anxious management of this modish-to-monied ratio.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• Most fans, though, will be happy to leave behind the subtext to concentrate on the often marvelous text.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024