Usage of "inkling" | TermGallery

Portuguese

A slight suggestion or vague understanding.

Usage of inkling in English

I felt the first inkling of true happiness I'd known in years. 
 Angel time: the songs of the seraphim 

Does it have any inkling how Sugar has mothered it so far? 
 The crimson petal and the white 

Already here: the first inkling of Google Lens, Google's visual search platform. 
 Wired 

There was not an inkling in his brain of the true situation. 
 For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store 

For the first time Gordon had an inkling of what was happening. 
 The Postman 

We, at least, see that Alfred had an inkling this might happen. 
 Wired 

But less than halfway through the second season, we have an inkling. 
 Reuters 

Neither the Queen nor the Duchess must have an inkling of this. 
 Clair de Lune / A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes 

But I never had the least inkling of what it could be. 
 The Master Builder 

There's no inkling whatsoever, it's the first time the matter's been raised. 
 Radio NZ 

They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. 
 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 

Yet he has no inkling of the method and temper of science. 
 The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors 

We had no inkling that there was this latent discontent, he said. 
 Reuters 

An inkling of the situation came to him and he lay quiet. 
 The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories 

I asked myself if Mrs. Strickland had any inkling of the facts. 
 The Moon and Sixpence 

They'd had no inkling that night that they were saying goodbye forever. 
 Beneath a southern sky 

inkling

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Portuguese

Inkling through the time

Inkling across language varieties

United Kingdom

Common

United States of America

Common

Meanings of inkling in English