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How to use the word inkling in a Sentence?

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On the morning of that day, I had no inkling that by late afternoon I would be leaving.

Ashraf Ghani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not an inkling, but I hoped. Ironically, my wrap-up press conference at the end of the session last Thursday I said the single greatest favor Joe Manchin could give the country is to kill this bill. That’s what the country needs, to see this bill killed. It is absolutely inappropriate and unnecessary at a time when we’re fighting inflation, it was an exciting thing to hear.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You may see in a relatively shorter period of Prime Time, when you're seeing the inkling of the flattening and coming down, but you know, you can't make an arbitrary decision until you see what you're dealing with. You need the data.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Whatever the criteria they have to meet, if it is thoroughly up to stuff, they should be able to participate, but if there is even an inkling of wrongdoing still going on, unfortunately all should have to pay the price.

David Oliver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I had no inkling whatsoever, i was as shocked and dismayed by the reports that I read as anyone else around here.

John Boehner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

Seán O'Casey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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