All 6 Uses of
imply
in
Lucky, by Sebold
- Following a song and scene called "The Abduction," where Aldonza is kidnapped, and, it is implied, gang-raped, Don Quixote comes upon her after she has been discarded by her captors.†
Chpt 5implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- The tone it was asked in implied that in having come back I had done something wrong—something not normal.
Chpt 7 *
- Magically I became story, not person, and story implies a kind of ownership by the storyteller.†
Chpt 7implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- All the things a good girl, he implied, might do after running into her rapist on the street.†
Chpt 11implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- "There are?" he said, again the same disbelieving tone, meant to imply that I was really a bit insane, wasn't I?†
Chpt 11imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- All of what wasn't said in every move of his—his insinuations, what he implied—I tried to answer by being as clear and controlled as possible.†
Chpt 11implied = suggested (said indirectly)
Definition:
to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence