imply

In a sentence

Six example sentences with imply, each labelled with its topic.

• To say the meeting was well attended for a Tuesday is to imply that Tuesdays usually draw almost nobody.

  Philosophy

• The bank never announced a cut, but the phrase about patient support was enough to imply one by December.

  Economics

• A long pause before answering can imply doubt, even when the words that follow sound perfectly confident.

  Psychology

• A contract can imply a duty of care even when no clause spells it out in words.

  Law

• The email never said the project was cancelled, but the phrase about redirected resources was meant to imply it.

  Business

• Benching the starter for the fourth quarter seemed to imply the coach had lost confidence in him.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• enhance
• precisely
• projecting
• core
• recovering
• peripheral
• preceding
• adaptation
• arbitrary
• varying
• relevant
• controversy