[ UK /ɪmplˈa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɫaɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. suggest that someone is guilty
  2. express or state indirectly
  3. have as a necessary feature
    This decision involves many changes
  4. suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
  5. have as a logical consequence
    The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
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How To Use imply In A Sentence

  • It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
  • She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
  • Simply smooth a little on your face at night, lie back and say goodbye to dull and lifeless skin. The Sun
  • The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
  • Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
  • The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
  • I did not have intent to imply that homeschooling is like public school, but that public school directs what a child learns and when and unschooling does not. What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant
  • An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
  • People were simply showing their deep respect, their real admiration and their love for one they felt had touched their lives.
  • Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent. Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
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