SUGGESTION in a Sentence

Learn SUGGESTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
411 example sentences for SUGGESTION, such as:
1. I want to offer a suggestion.
2. He bucked at the suggestion to reduce his staff.
3. Carol didn't pay any attention to my suggestion.
4. Everybody else but me agreed to their suggestion.
5. We are in the process of reviewing your suggestion.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SUGGESTION
suggestion
 n.  the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
 n.  persuasion formulated as a suggestion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His former dread started up full-armed at the suggestion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  So she pretended she had not heard Uncle Peter's suggestion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  This suggestion met with the complete approval of Prissy, who was now reduced to teeth- chattering idiocy at every unexpected sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  After she had unsuccessfully canvassed the town and refused the importuning of many eager Carpetbaggers, she finally decided to take Tommy's suggestion and ask Hugh Elsing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  She had made no reply to his suggestion that they should spend the afternoon together, but as her plan unfolded itself he felt fairly confident of being included in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  He leaned unpleasantly close in order to convey this suggestion, and she fancied she caught a significant aroma which explained the dark flush on his face and the glistening dampness of his forehead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  And as Lily stared at the breathless suddenness of the suggestion, she continued with her easy laugh: "You don't know them and they don't know you; but that don't make a rap of difference."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
8  Yet at Carry Fisher's suggestion a new hope had stirred in her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
9  She had rejected Rosedale's suggestion with a promptness of scorn almost surprising to herself: she had not lost her capacity for high flashes of indignation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
10  I have no claim to know them," Selden answered, ignoring her tone; "no claim to offer any comment or suggestion beyond the one I have already made.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  Her frock was an ingenue slip of lawn, with a wide gold sash and a low square neck, which gave a suggestion of throat and molded shoulders.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Carol didn't pay any attention to my suggestion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  He never was, but round him was a suggestion of masked faces at the window, revolvers, cords binding him to a chair, his struggle to crawl to the key before he fainted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  Fuchs glanced about to see if there was general approval of her suggestion, then began, 'Jesus, Lover of my Soul,' and all the men and women took it up after him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
Example Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  I shall treat that suggestion with the contempt it deserves.
2  The suggestion was made at the conference, but they threw it out.
3  I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
4  Everybody else but me agreed to their suggestion.
5  Every member of the government plumped for the premier's new suggestion.
6  Anyone inclined to mock this suggestion should note that the armed services are perhaps the most respected institution in Britain today.
7  It's an interesting suggestion and we'll keep it on ice.
8  He won't listen to any suggestion that doesn't fall in with his scheme.
9  The committee member had difficulty in fighting his suggestion through.
10  He accused Mrs Moore of making an indecent suggestion.
11  I want to offer a suggestion.
12  My suggestion that we all play tennis sank like a stone.
13  We are in the process of reviewing your suggestion.
14  The suggestion that we should publish the amount paid for each company raises difficult problems of commercial confidentiality.
15  He bucked at the suggestion to reduce his staff.