"hint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

hint sustantivo

sustantivo + hint
Kolokacji: 5
hint of a veto • hint of a smile • household hint • hint of one's presence • hint of one's thoughts
hint + verbo
Kolokacji: 12
hint comes • Veto hint says • hint appears • hint touches • hint makes • ...
verbo + hint
Kolokacji: 20
drop hints • provide hints • find hints • give a hint • offer a hint • contain hints • take the hint • ...
adjetivo + hint
Kolokacji: 40
slight hint • faint hint • only hint • strong hint • subtle hint • mere hint • helpful hint • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(2) faint, vague, dark
Kolokacji: 3
(4) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
1. subtle hint = subtelna aluzja subtle hint
2. not-so-subtle hint = not-so-subtle aluzja not-so-subtle hint
3. ominous hint = złowieszcza aluzja ominous hint
  • He had never heard a more ridiculous collection of insinuations and ominous hints.
  • "This ship is not going anywhere, except on its current course, unless I hear something better than a couple of ominous hints and warnings."
  • Bonnie and Sylvia also overhear ominous hints about their parents' ship, which has sunk, perhaps intentionally.
  • They had an ominous hint of what was going to happen to them when at the time of departure they were told to leave their luggage.
  • The President charges that their real objective is a civil war, an ominous hint that he may seek emergency powers.
  • The unlocked pier gate was an ominous hint to The Shadow.
  • The question had an ominous hint to it.
  • He had already dropped a few ominous hints that he was considering toughening the laws about the disposal of antiquities.
  • 20.16 There is an ominous hint of further treachery in Ribbentrop's secret instructions.
  • His memory was now blank on this score; but there had been an ominous hint in the note he had written to himself.
(7) helpful, useful, practical
Kolokacji: 3
(9) gentle, oblique, pointed
Kolokacji: 3
(10) far, brief
Kolokacji: 2
(11) sly, handy
Kolokacji: 2
(12) obvious, unmistakable
Kolokacji: 2
(13) cryptic, mysterious
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + hint
Kolokacji: 10
for hints • of hints • without a hint • with a hint • to hints • ...

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