Sample Sentences for
innuendo
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    There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo, and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.  (source)
    innuendo = suggestive sexual humor
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    One who builds his entire life on innuendo and mystery.†  (source)
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    My face flushed at the imagined innuendo.†  (source)
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    Yes, this little gray fellow behind his little gray desk was charged not only with recording the information the waitresses gathered, but with ensuring their willing participation by reminding them of their duty to their country, by suggesting how easy it would be for them to lose their positions, and, when necessary, by making some other more ominous innuendo.†  (source)
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    Joseph had instilled into him a pride of name, and of his lineage; he would, had he dared, have fostered hate between him and the present owner of the Heights: but his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered innuendoes and private comminations.†  (source)
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    Because I knew my feelings for him were vulnerable to being felled by my mother's suspicions, passing remarks, and innuendos.†  (source)
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    Through the long night, too long, three solid hours nonstop, too long because it has to be too long, they've just survived a crisis and need to be intemperate, and too long because Lenny just can't stop, he looks up from under the proscenium arch and sees the ornamented ceiling and the gilded rows of boxes and he knows this is the temple of Casals and Heifetz and Toscanini and it gives him a mainline jolt, and too long because he's been running on scared fumes all week and he feels revived, alive, ready to wail the night away The disc jockeys were here, guys who did late-night jazz in voices of smoky innuendo.†  (source)
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    I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†  (source)
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    There were a lot of innuendos, overt suggestions, and laughter before the transmission ended with a promise to get together when he got into town.†  (source)
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    The possibility for crude sexual innuendo is there, but I duck it.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, in the society into which his grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with shame and with a pain at his heart.†  (source)
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    But Charlie was beyond noticing innuendos.†  (source)
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    Now, remember, Mr. McLean, this portrait is crudely sketched in the crayons of innuendo.†  (source)
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