How to Use suggestive in a Sentence

suggestive

adjective

• 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
• The ground beneath her was soft and suggestive of sleep.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• 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
• Kat, 22 There was a customer who came in every day and said things in a suggestive tone.
  — Kate Beckman, Cosmopolitan, 30 Jan. 2018
• Even in Syria, there are suggestive trends in land mine use.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 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
• John Zogby Grade: C Two new polls out late this week are very suggestive.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
• 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
• With its whispery, suggestive lyrics, the song sold more than 1 million copies, reached No.
  — Dinitia Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• 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
• But, though suggestive, these studies were not large enough to be compelling.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The photos show her in a variety of suggestive poses while in uniform on the plane.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2020
• To be clear, none of the suggestive dog drinks contain alcohol.
  — Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Entire pieces can—and have—been written on the suggestive use of food in Luca Guadagnino's films alone.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The question is not how or why this character begins turning into a furry, rodent-killing canine at night, which Heller shows via a few suggestive body-horror shots and quick cuts, but what the after-effect of the transformation is.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025