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  • No one had ever heard of these avatars before, but their names seemed to indicate they were working together, either as a duo or as part of a clan.   (source)
    indicate = suggest
  • It was his first indication that everything had drastically changed.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • When we couldn't and I told Mrs. Ellis, my fourth-grade teacher, that I had forgotten my quarter, she said her records indicated that someone had already paid for me.   (source)
    indicated = showed
  • When Jim Gallien saw the headline and the accompanying map indicating that the body had been found twenty-five miles west of Healy on the Stampede Trail, he felt the hairs bristle across the base of his scalp:   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • The military didn't break down nonbattle deaths by cause, but statistics strongly indicate that accidental crashes accounted for most deaths.   (source)
    indicate = suggest
  • ...the numbers they had been given at birth. The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. But each child knew his number, of course. Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child's misbehavior, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name.   (source)
    indicating = as a way of saying (showing)
  • But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.   (source)
    indication = sign (to suggest something)
  • Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world. ... He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.   (source)
    indicate = point out (show by a sign)
  • On the dashboard in front of him Brian saw dials, switches, meters, knobs, levers, cranks, lights, handles that were wiggling and flickering, all indicating nothing that he understood and the pilot seemed the same way.   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • She indicated the sullen-faced boys on the nearby bunks.   (source)
    indicated = pointed to or nodded toward
  • He takes the girl by the arm, and by placing her hand across her own mouth, he indicates the need for silence.   (source)
    indicates = shows
  • ...had Gar mentioned anything that might indicate he was sick?   (source)
    indicate = suggest (possibly show)
  • I'm still waiting and hoping for some sign, some indication that she will miss us as much as we'll miss her.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • We don't know, but there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left.   (source)
    indicate = suggest (possibly show)
  • She nudges her head behind her, indicating she wants privacy.   (source)
    indicating = showing (saying without words)
  • He indicates with his hands.   (source)
    indicates = shows, expresses, or demonstrates
  • There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof.   (source)
    indication = sign (to show something else)
  • PARRIS: Why, sir—I discovered her—indicating Abigail—and my niece and ten or twelve of the other girls, dancing in the forest last night.   (source)
    indicating = pointing to or nodding toward (expressing that she is the one he is talking about)
  • Intelligence had indicated that they may have already waited too long.   (source)
    indicated = suggested (that something is true)
  • Most houses on the connecting four blocks give little indication that anyone is awake inside.   (source)
    indication = sign (to show, express, or demonstrate something else)
  • the physical evidence seems to indicate that Margaret White was waiting for her....   (source)
    indicate = show
  • I could only hear his voice; it was the sole indication that he was alive.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • All he has to do is admit he was wrong, to indicate, demonstrate rational contact, and the treatment would be canceled this time.   (source)
    indicate = show or demonstrate
  • Shall we carry on? Hally? (He indicates the exercise book)   (source)
    indicates = points out
  • I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or corn had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound.   (source)
    indicator = pointer or gauge (that shows the weight)
  • MARIA Down to here. [Indicates her waist.]   (source)
    indicates = shows, expresses, or demonstrates
  • Sally Jean's face, solemn and defeated, was indication enough that she had not heard what she wanted to hear.   (source)
    indication = a sign that showed
  • I strove to look stern, thoughtful, and noncommittal all at once. I pulled at my beard, which is said to indicate concentration.   (source)
    indicate = express or demonstrate
  • I have been listening very closely, and it seems to me that this man—[he indicates the 8TH JUROR] has some very good points to make.   (source)
    indicates = points out
  • That is to say that at that stage of the affair some hocus-pocus is clearly indicated-and that Armstrong was deceived by it and sent to his death.   (source)
    indicated = demonstrated (shown or suggested to have happened)
  • I picked it up with a weary bend and handed it back to her, holding it at arm's length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs upon it — but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.   (source)
    indicate = demonstrate
  • [Scotty re-enters from the bathroom and indicates to Tom Junior that Chance is not there.]   (source)
    indicates = expresses
  • "Well, I hope it will turn out all right," said Mrs. Rachel in a tone that plainly indicated her painful doubts.   (source)
    indicated = suggested or demonstrated
  • ...as the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of lights. The general chuckled. "They indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none: giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as..."   (source)
    indicate = point out (show by a sign)
  • 'I wish I'd had a brother instead of two whiny little kiddy sisters,' said Peter. This was always recognized as indicating the high-water mark of Peter's rage.   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of Uncle Sam's government is here established.   (source)
  • The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess.   (source)
    indication = sign
  • I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, appear to dismay them.   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • It's only an indication of the potential a tribute showed in training.†   (source)
  • Kalo had indicated a distance of about a yard.†   (source)
  • By the time the red light indicating transmission completion lit up, she was already soaked in sweat.†   (source)
  • Communications had been totally disrupted, and the patchy reporting authorities did get indicated that power and water and emergency services would be quickly restored.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time, the use of such terms was a reliable indication that one was in a civilized country.†   (source)
  • And it was the first indication that Dad understood the complex and conflicting feelings I'd developed.†   (source)
  • "Over here," an officer indicates, and they follow him to one side of the room, where two male bodies are laid out together.†   (source)
  • "Yes, and I see that when it came to some of the youngsters," Johann indicated the portly eighteen-year-old Hans Stillwasser, "they even ran out of boots."†   (source)
  • In fact, the bullet wound indicated that the muzzle was touching her skin.†   (source)
  • There was not a thing to indicate that the group was making any progress at all across the desert.†   (source)
  • The articles indicated that the shooter, Richard Antonio Moore, would likely receive the death penalty.†   (source)
  • Your intelligent response to the dog indicates strong alignment with the Erudite.†   (source)
  • I called him Mamaji, mama being the Tamil word for uncle and ji being a suffix used in India to indicate respect and affection.†   (source)
  • The monitoring ABI agents were left with nothing to suggest any relationship between Myers and McMillian and plenty of evidence indicating that the two men had never met.†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor had indicated unequivocally that he wished to commit suicide.†   (source)
  • A low voice and soft address are the common indications of a well-bred woman.†   (source)
  • We used to play Tarot cards for fun, and my indicator card always turned out to be from the suit of pentacles.†   (source)
  • When the bell rings to indicate that it's time for Mr. Dimming's class, my palms feel sweaty.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed to indicate that he'd be getting a fist in the face.†   (source)
  • "Sit down, Harry," said Fudge, indicating a chair by the fire.†   (source)
  • History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.†   (source)
  • Let the record indicate that Mr. Cruz has identified Mr. King.†   (source)
  • Circles with black indicate the proportion of foreign blood.†   (source)
  • Mr. Poe put up his hands to indicate he had heard enough.†   (source)
  • "Or do you want to waste the rest of your life here?" and with bony fingers he indicated the graveyard and the night.†   (source)
  • "We've reached safe-abort," another person called out, indicating that the ship could crash harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean if necessary.†   (source)
  • "Then in your opinion," said Cook, "does a negative result indicate that the deceased did not fire a weapon?"†   (source)
  • Horace indicated for Art Moran the blood that had clotted in the dura mater and the tear in it where the piece of brain protruded.†   (source)
  • He put on his turn indicator and pulled back out into the lane.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Murry indicated a chair.†   (source)
  • And here she swept her arm around, indicating about a dozen offices surrounding the open space.†   (source)
  • There was no indication what they stood for.†   (source)
  • The indication that my father truly was beside himself was the way he had carried his argument with us to others.†   (source)
  • My first indication that my life would never be the same again came just as we were leaving the hospital.†   (source)
  • She motioned to where it hurt, indicating that Wren reach below the towel.†   (source)
  • There was no indication of how badly they'd been hurt'or worse.†   (source)
  • And then there followed a period of time in which she scrutinized my face—for any telltale indication of the race of my missing male ancestor, I would guess.†   (source)
  • " As Hilly tells us the story of Yule May, she makes a big circle with her finger to indicate a huge stone, the unimaginable worth of the "ruby."†   (source)
  • "What about Elise?" the queen said, indicating a blond young woman clad in lavender.†   (source)
  • It can be difficult to distinguish them from common folk, though there are certain indicators.†   (source)
  • With his head bent over in the lamplight I could discern a slight mound in his brow above the eyebrows, the faint bulge which is usually believed to indicate mental power.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, someone presses a square metal button on their table to flick on a light, indicating they require a servant.†   (source)
  • He immediately set to work digging a pit where Ezinma had indicated.†   (source)
  • Oh sure, there were some indications, and I hadn't missed them.†   (source)
  • "Sign 4x where indicated," it read.†   (source)
  • The others shook their heads, indicating they hadn't either.†   (source)
  • I nodded to him to indicate that I was not afraid and that I wanted to be alone with Jefferson.†   (source)
  • I shivered and shook my head indicating that I was very cold.†   (source)
  • He forgave this punctuation only in his mother's letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke.†   (source)
  • That is the final step, which is done when all the ingredients have been ground as indicated in the recipe.†   (source)
  • Did you ever, at any time, indicate to your niece that she was not to associate with this woman?†   (source)
  • Just as the name indicated, the Red Successors were the next generation of revolutionaries, and when they were old enough, they would become Red Guards.†   (source)
  • "I found these here," she said, indicating the leather gloves.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure that would be the indication of peace your father had been striving for.†   (source)
  • It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off.†   (source)
  • "That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.†   (source)
  • If the date's any indication, this was right after the American State of China started fighting back, just before the Fourth World War.†   (source)
  • Eleanor had never even heard the N-word said out loud until she moved here, but the kids on her bus used it like it was the only way to indicate that somebody was black.†   (source)
  • A dip in pressure would indicate a rip, which could prove fatal in the long term.†   (source)
  • Every few minutes his voice would rise again as he called out a line or two, indicating where everyone should be in the prayer book.†   (source)
  • HERMIONE (with a grin): You know, Ron says he thinks I see more of my secretary, Ethel, (she indicates oft) than him.†   (source)
  • "No. In a —" he gestured, to indicate a sling —"what do you call it.†   (source)
  • There are many indications that they were.†   (source)
  • They looked at everything that could conceivably be an indication of real-world success.†   (source)
  • Alex allows himself one small indication of nervousness: He curls and flexes his fingers against his thighs.†   (source)
  • If she's Nine, like the note we found indicated, and the Mogadorians were tracking her, it's a good thing that she vanished.†   (source)
  • We agreed to this, but as we walked towards the low wall around the small car park Ruth had indicated, Chrissie said, perhaps a little too eagerly: "But even if we don't get to see her again, we're all agreed she's a possible.†   (source)
  • He had his mother's cadence, the delivery that indicated everything he said was something you'd want to hear.†   (source)
  • When Garrow indicated his approval, Merlock picked it up.†   (source)
  • Even now, in the dark, there were indications of a spirit world.†   (source)
  • My trainees gave no indication that they'd heard either the snake or me speak.†   (source)
  • "Ah, the woods," his father said, still W. C. Fields as he indicated the beginning of a section of trees and brush that ran for a mile or so toward the state highway.†   (source)
  • "Everything looks wrong, false, weird, like in dreams, and now," he murmured, turning his head to indicate the surroundings outside, "now we're flying.†   (source)
  • My mother tried to get us settled somewhere but all indications pointed to our going back to the land of her birth, to her red earth, her Mexico.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the baying indicated that they had found something, only to have it disappear again.†   (source)
  • Fathers had come running From their workplaces, only to stand in front of their empty houses with no indication of where their families had gone.†   (source)
  • It came to me now and then even though everything people told me seemed to indicate that he was waiting.†   (source)
  • Colonel Kassad shook his head, whether in refusal to respond or to indicate that he was not a member of the Shrike Church, it was not clear.†   (source)
  • The parents may be one of the best indications of the future temperament of your new puppy.†   (source)
  • "I've told you how to make sense of that," she said, her irritated tone indicating they'd had this particular discussion before.†   (source)
  • She pinched the lobes a number of times, then gave a grunt to indicate she was done with Satsu and turned to me.†   (source)
  • 'Look,' he said, indicating the crowd at the Umschlagplatz.†   (source)
  • He indicates over his shoulder where Minerva and Lio are immersed in an intent conversation in a corner of the galena.†   (source)
  • "The first should be an indicator card," he went on, grabbing a white card with four squares marked on it and displaying it.†   (source)
  • She makes no announcement indicating that there is more.†   (source)
  • I did not know whether she had noticed me sitting in the car, and, if she had, she offered no indication.†   (source)
  • She had educated herself enough about cancer treatment to know that 208 indicated metastasis: a death sentence.†   (source)
  • Plus, it indicates that you've read him, right?†   (source)
  • Coming inside was obviously a good sign, but that shouldn't be misread as an indication that the next steps will be any easier than the last, the doctor warns me.†   (source)
  • The medical staff never gave any indication of that.†   (source)
  • A harsh tone sounded, and a blue light blinked on the panel in front of me, beside the fuel indicator.†   (source)
  • The battery indicator on the right-hand side was visibly falling, bar by bar.†   (source)
  • And recently, I received information that indicates Miss Duchannes had similar problems at the school she previously attended.†   (source)
  • It is a marvelously small ear, and at the top it is shaped and carved after the fashion in which old sculptors indicated deviltry and vice in their statues of satyrs.†   (source)
  • Apparently he did not know of the regulation that forbade prisoners to step on the mat, for he indicated that I was to walk ahead of him down the center of the hall.†   (source)
  • Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.†   (source)
  • Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.†   (source)
  • We were driving along and one of the long metal screws kept hitting the signal indicator as I was driving.†   (source)
  • This indicates something of the common background of these three religions.†   (source)
  • There's no indication that Henrietta questioned him; like most patients in the 1950s, she deferred to anything her doctors said.†   (source)
  • If she could hear Lestat in the night she gave no indication.†   (source)
  • "Look at that," he said, indicating a space higher up on the wall.†   (source)
  • "Please," he said, indicating for me to follow him into his office, and I did, feeling sick, dizzy all the way.†   (source)
  • She hinted that if the biology test was any indication of the contents of his mind, he might well be eligible to play ball after Christmas, and catch the last part of the season.†   (source)
  • The captain made his own visual inspection of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic indicators.†   (source)
  • I repeated the number louder, and stuck out my thumb and my little finger on my right hand to indicate the number six.†   (source)
  • Da5id notices Hiro, indicates with a flick of his eyes that this is not a good time.†   (source)
  • But Barrabas gave no indication of ferocity.†   (source)
  • Certainly he was not indicating that he was one of them or even liked them.†   (source)
  • Luma came upon a small grocery store with a sign indicating that it was a Middle Eastern market called Talars.†   (source)
  • This flatness indicated no brain waves or activity on one side of his brain—a sign of severe damage.†   (source)
  • What had I ever done to indicate that I was irresponsible or didn't have my priorities straight?†   (source)
  • They watched the gaslights go dim in several rooms, indicating that the occupants were settling in for the night.†   (source)
  • This news encouraged Florentino Ariza, since it indicated to him that the beautiful adolescent with the almond-shaped eyes was within reach of his dreams.†   (source)
  • Salander glowered back with an expression that did not indicate any warm feelings.†   (source)
  • Valerie pushed aside her black bangs and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off.†   (source)
  • The first indication we had that things were no longer under control was when Dad ran into the house frantically to get our help.†   (source)
  • Your scancard indicates that it's almost time for your formal sorting test.†   (source)
  • "It's not a very good one, if their clothes are any indication," Miss Milhouse said scornfully.†   (source)
  • He saw no shields or any indication of their use.†   (source)
  • Ellerby gives me the high sign—he's alone in his lane by now-indicating he'll set the pace for this one.†   (source)
  • "Likewise," he continued, "men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children."†   (source)
  • There was an indication of a palm tree going up too.†   (source)
  • An ordinary day, nothing to indicate otherwise.†   (source)
  • Please indicate Dr. Rogers will not be in.†   (source)
  • Then I tap my pencil on the table to indicate time passing ominously.†   (source)
  • There are strong indications that he was acting out some personal animosity toward the teacher in question for reasons unknown.†   (source)
  • HARRY LOGAN PARKED HIS CAR UNDER A SIGN THAT SAID large animal hospital and thought it odd that a university couldn't come up with wording to indicate more precisely whether it was the animals who were large or the hospital.†   (source)
  • These two opposing forces clash within her, but the final victory belongs to the power source that indicates awakening.†   (source)
  • Consumer research indicated that future sales in some key areas were at risk.†   (source)
  • His actions on his final mission were indicative of the way he lived his life.†   (source)
  • His expression indicated that he would rather have had something else, but did not wish to seem to be taking advantage of Vivaldo.†   (source)
  • There was every indication they wouldn't but the Council persuaded them to keep their word.†   (source)
  • A sign by a glass door says CASUALTY DEPT. Monet hands the driver some money and gets out of the taxi and opens the glass door and goes over to the reception window and indicates that he is very ill.†   (source)
  • The number of prostitutes in Sweden dropped by 41 percent in the first five years, according to one count, and the price of sex dropped, too—a pretty good indication that demand was down.†   (source)
  • If that was any indication of the rest of senior year, this school will be anything but boring.†   (source)
  • The crew's drunken celebration indicated how grave the situation had been just hours before.†   (source)
  • Left nothing in the house amiss, left no indication they had searched for anything with the possible exception of [Clutter's] billfold.†   (source)
  • Living off beans, however, is reminiscent of a more slang culture, realistic, and a lower class, which is indicative of both the speaker in the song and the music that accompanies it.†   (source)
  • Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, miraculously you receive the smallest sign or indication that you're on the right track.†   (source)
  • "He'll do the actual work," the Turk said, indicating the Sicilian, who was wrapping cloth around his cuts.†   (source)
  • The only trouble was that Milo had never heard of any of the places it indicated, and even the names sounded most peculiar.†   (source)
  • "They would not have me say so"—she indicated Cyril and Claudia—"but I am a fairy."†   (source)
  • More important, each school on Cedric's list has an asterisk next to it, indicating the offer of some scholarship money.†   (source)
  • So far that hadn't happened, but riding up at breakfast time on a gant horse was an indication of trouble.†   (source)
  • There ain't a spinning mill in the country that won't save money by putting in the indicator, and paying us a good royalty on it.†   (source)
  • When the CO2 reaches a certain threshold, indicating the presence of multiple targets, the device detonates.†   (source)
  • "This, along with enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes indicates a clear pattern of—" The door squeaks open and McGovern turns, his pointer still buried in the doe's belly.†   (source)
  • A letter addressed to a person in a position of public responsibility ought to indicate that station, Washington said, otherwise it would appear mere private correspondence.†   (source)
  • He nods to a stone placard, indicating I read it.†   (source)
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