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Definition of "hints" []

  • Plural form of hint. (noun)
  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hint. (verb)

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Use "hints" in a sentence
  • "Your Love Is Calling My Name hints at rockabilly, with Adam Granduciel muttering about freeways and harbours, yet the unrelenting drum pattern, the swirling synths, the shimmers of guitar somehow remove it from the US rock tradition even as it fights to return home."
  • "She does a good deal of that in the patter -- much of which is devoted to pointing out, as her title hints, the pluses and minuses of time's passage."
  • "Jane, as the title hints, is Bronte's secret double, not the chillier, appropriately-named Lucy Snowe, just as Jane's romance plot supposedly acts out Bronte's secret fantasies in a way that Lucy's broken, ambivalent end does not."