Sample Sentences for

suggestive

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

She wore a suggestive outfit to the party that drew a lot of attention.

I'd taken a seat on the corner of his unmade bed. I wasn't trying to be suggestive or anything; I just got kind of tired when I had to stand a lot.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Officers leered at the naked women and made crude comments and suggestive threats.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

It was someone who wore nothing that could be construed as suggestive.  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

But most give me little smirks and eye one another suggestively.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Perhaps the incident is not worth recording [ Josiah wrote], as there is really no way of getting upon paper the suggestiveness it had to a witness......The flash of old sentiment was startling from its utter unexpectedness.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

It was so pleasant to sit there looking up at her, as she lifted now one book and then another from the shelves, fluttering the pages between her fingers, while her drooping profile was outlined against the warm background of old bindings, that he talked on without pausing to wonder at her sudden interest in so unsuggestive a subject.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

I have heard that Sanaubar's suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries of infidelity.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

A guy whistles suggestively.  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.†  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

I don't know that there would have been much more communication had our mother lived—though she did tell me never to wear "pointy bras"; they were "too suggestive."  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

After that the boys stopped coming to our street, but one of the small boys who played with Atal would call out suggestively, "How is Haroon?" whenever I passed by.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Drew turned up the well-bred charm and turned down the suggestiveness as soon as we walked into the house.†  (source) Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility, 2012

Her silence was suggestive of deeper concerns she wasn’t ready to share.

He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother's, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

The little stories of the strangled rabbit and the young boy and girl he lured into a cave were most suggestive......'I can make them hurt if I want to......'  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Then with the finely attuned senses of his brotherhood, the Count noticed something suggestive out of the corner of his eye.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

He compiled lists of old words too — words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in today's world, or toady's world, as Jimmy sometimes deliberately misspelled it on his term papers.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.... Its forms are bold and suggestive.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996