INKLING in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for INKLING, such as:

1. I had no inkling of his real purpose until much later.
2. The first inkling we had of Cliff's problem was when he didn't come to work.
3. Upon Selifan's mind there appeared to have dawned a similar inkling, for he had ceased to hold forth.
4. All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family obtaining an inkling of the case.
5. Wildeve had not received an inkling of the fact before, and a sudden expression of pain overspread his face.

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 Meanings and Examples of INKLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inkling
 n.  slight hint or indication; slight understanding
Classic Sentence:
1  Wildeve had not received an inkling of the fact before, and a sudden expression of pain overspread his face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
2  With Eduardo Lucas lies the solution of our problem, though I must admit that I have not an inkling as to what form it may take.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
3  It will be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the law had gathered an inkling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
4  All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family obtaining an inkling of the case.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
5  Dear mama, there, as soon as she got an inkling of the business, found out that it was of an immoral tendency.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  At first I knew not what to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  Upon Selifan's mind there appeared to have dawned a similar inkling, for he had ceased to hold forth.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
8  But they should at least give him some inkling of just how hard a struggle it is and how much work it is for me to defend him.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
9  Perhaps some inkling of this paradox, even in the unquiet days of the Bureau, helped the bayonets allay an opposition to human training which still to-day lies smouldering in the South, but not flaming.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
10  And you need not exult over him, good brother of the Southern States; for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumstances, would not do much better.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The first inkling we had of Cliff's problem was when he didn't come to work.
2  I had no inkling of his real purpose until much later.
3  His first inkling is when he tries to take a step forward and discovers that his legs are collapsing beneath him.