take a hint in a sentence
Examples
- Philips might be taking a hint from the Pittsburgh Steelers, who doubled Brown the majority of the time two weeks ago with great success in a 21-3 victory.
- :" As long as Australia has Bradman she will be invincible . . . To keep alive the competitive spirit, the authorities might take a hint from billiards.
- Taking a hint from the new sounds sweeping Rio's slums, the samba school Unidos de Viradouro put some funk in their samba and won this year's carnival competition Wednesday.
- Taking a hint from runway models, the Oxy-10 set now considers it cool to do the once unthinkable : slinging book-laden backpacks on both shoulders, not one, Quasimodo style.
- Lord help us if Viacom-CBS _ can they please settle on a new name ? _ takes a hint from Disney-ABC and goes in big for this synergy thing.
- "I could take a hint, " Zukor recalled wryly . " She got the $ 20, 000, and before long I was paying her $ 100, 000 a year.
- "Some people just can't take a hint, " he wrote of the 5th Circuit U . S . Court of Appeals, which had appeared to largely ignore the 1997 case.
- Personally, I wish they'd take a hint from " Let's Make a Deal " and encourage people to scream and cry and jump up and down and hug the guest experts.
- I don't know, but maybe we should take a hint from TV, and, if the sun really is slip-sliding away, send it into reruns, where many dead stars enjoy eternal life.
- After six suspensions, he later recalled that he could " take a hint " and dropped out of BYU . By then he had already published five articles in nationally distributed magazines.