Example Sentences

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Then we get Ms. Morris’s marvelous painting of a solitary godwit in a suggestively tarnished sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Rather than a tight, realist description of sitter and scene, he opted for suggestively rendering the image in quick, loose paint.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

In the episode, which aired on Tuesday, Giuliani alleges that "SNL" “got intimidated of saying anything that might be suggestively racist,” which, he says, is racist “in itself.”

From Salon • May 5, 2024

A self-portrait, suggestively fractured in two, by Sylvia Plath.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

Lamb stopped rattling the coins in his pocket suggestively, kept them there, and strolled toward the main entrance.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various