How to Use suggestive in a Sentence

suggestive

adjective

• There are some suggestive themes Coach Carr returns in the new movie (this time played by Jon Hamm).
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 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
• What are some of the trends in podcasts that are suggestive of how this industry is evolving?
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 6 June 2022
• Like the stories, the photographs are suggestive and have a kind of fabular air.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• So any in-between, Kaylee would know exactly what had happened in those sort of suggestive blanks.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• How come the Actor is making suggestive remarks about Sasha’s wife?
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• But the double-shot of retro music homages is suggestive of how Euphoria can never quite leave well enough alone.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2022
• Grown men would stare and make suggestive comments, loudly.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
• The location in the hands is highly suggestive of carpal tunnel syndrome.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2021
• Svendgard said that that language was purposely suggestive and not overt.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
• The language isn’t eloquent but the image is, and the fragmentary form, like a single remembered line of verse, leaves a suggestive echo.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2022
• The actor, one of my lifelong favorites, has a lurid, suggestive smile, curt at the edges, and eyes that shine with hidden information.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The story was suggestive — a sketch rather than a complete portrayal.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• His works—suggestive in nature and full of bright patterns, colors and gold leaf—stood in sharp contrast to the traditions that came before.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• But the fact that this result held for 15 of the 16 infants tested who didn't succumb to sleep or fussiness is certainly suggestive.
  — Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Facebook group seemed put off by its suggestive language, according to Gillian Keller, a local artist with access to the group.
  — Danny Freedman, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
• But there’s something even more exhausting and even more suggestive about the scale and the appeal of these enormous metaverses.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
• There are even moments when the show veers in darkly suggestive directions.
  — Maggie Cao, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
• Hunger and thirst are constants; so are other appetites, to be sated only by a suggestive poster image or, for the lucky ones, a romp with a passing farm girl.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• One, transformed into a translucent scrim at the front of the stage, is a swirl of oceanic blues and forest greens suggestive of a coastline and turbulent waters.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Perhaps inspired by Britney Spears’ turn to the dark side, Aguilera brings out her inner bad girl with highly suggestive dance moves in a grimy dance club.
  — Chris Isaak, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
• These chocolates have an acidic flavor and aroma that is suggestive of tropical fruits and a strong Sativa strain.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024