Sample Sentences for
imply
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    In the air there was only an edge of coolness to imply the coming winter.  (source)
    imply = suggest or indicate
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    Because they imply very large consequences for human life.  (source)
    imply = suggest
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    I tried to imply clandestine dealings with a high occupation official.  (source)
    imply = suggest (say indirectly)
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    "You act like you don't believe I can do it." "I didn't say that." "You implied it."  (source)
    implied = said indirectly
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    It seemed rude to ask what they used to do or imply that I was leaving soon, so I didn't.  (source)
    imply = say indirectly
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    Are you implying, sir, that the medical profession is corrupt?  (source)
    implying = suggesting or saying indirectly
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    One implies choice; the other doesn't.  (source)
    implies = suggests
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    Now seeing it is manifest, that the Civill Power, and the Power of the Common-wealth is the same thing; and that Supremacy, and the Power of making Canons, and granting Faculties, implyeth a Common-wealth; it followeth, that where one is Soveraign, another Supreme; where one can make Lawes, and another make Canons; there must needs be two Common-wealths, of one & the same Subjects; which is a Kingdome divided in it selfe, and cannot stand.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She implyeth" in older English, today we say "She implies."
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    To solidify this bloc became the paramount goal of Congress, expressly or impliedly governing its decisions on other issues—particularly the admission of new states, the readmission of Southern states and the determination of senatorial credentials.†  (source)
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    He indicated that he was planning another extended trip but implied that he'd visit his family in Annandale before hitting the road.  (source)
    implied = suggested (said indirectly)
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    I don't mean to imply that women should stop having children; on the contrary, nature intended them to, and that's the way it should be.  (source)
    imply = suggest
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    "Surely you're not implying …." said Mrs. Tickham.  (source)
    implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
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    The simple fact that he has a destination is enough for Lev. It's more than Lev has. Destination implies a future.  (source)
    implies = indirectly says there is
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