Imply

Examples

• An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty-five times, to imply that it was the lady-lodger, and no other. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for satisfaction than his words alone would imply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You don't mean to imply that she had any guilty knowledge of the crime? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• How can you imply that he required guarding against me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Referring the education to her seemed to imply it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As its name implies, it was dedicated to the service of the Muses, which was also the case with the Peripatetic school at Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An interrupted appearance to the senses implies not necessarily an interruption in the existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The statement that a gun has a length of 45 calibers, for example, implies that the gun is forty-five times the bore’s diameter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Positive science always implies practically the ends which the community is concerned to achieve. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But increased freedom for those who deserve it means increased responsibility; for it implies the possibility of error. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We ignore the prospective reference just because it is so irretrievably implied. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As implied in a previous chapter, number relations are not clearly grasped by primitive races. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It implied that what was to be done was necessarily evil, and it caused her to say in a whisper, 'O Father! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is implied in the argument. Plato. The Republic.
• The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This was Sir James's strongest way of implying that he thought ill of a man's character. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The sister is pretty, said Celia, implying that she thought less favorably of Mr. Casaubon's mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The term species thus comes to be a mere useless abstraction, implying and assuming a separate act of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• With a fearful projection of the under-lip, implying an impetus of scorn the most decided, he broke out-- Je vis dans un trou! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There seemed to be no use in implying that somebody's ignorance or imprudence had killed him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I shook my head as implying a negative. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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