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  • When we couldn't and I told Mrs. Ellis, my fourth-grade teacher, that I had forgotten my quarter, she said her records indicated that someone had already paid for me.   (source)
    indicated = showed
  • It was his first indication that everything had drastically changed.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • The military didn't break down nonbattle deaths by cause, but statistics strongly indicate that accidental crashes accounted for most deaths.   (source)
    indicate = suggest
  • When Jim Gallien saw the headline and the accompanying map indicating that the body had been found twenty-five miles west of Healy on the Stampede Trail, he felt the hairs bristle across the base of his scalp:   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • ...the numbers they had been given at birth. The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. But each child knew his number, of course. Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child's misbehavior, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name.   (source)
    indicating = as a way of saying (showing)
  • On the dashboard in front of him Brian saw dials, switches, meters, knobs, levers, cranks, lights, handles that were wiggling and flickering, all indicating nothing that he understood and the pilot seemed the same way.   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • "Don't worry, my dear," she said, in a tone that indicated scant hope.   (source)
    indicated = suggested
  • ...had Gar mentioned anything that might indicate he was sick?   (source)
    indicate = suggest (possibly show)
  • I'm still waiting and hoping for some sign, some indication that she will miss us as much as we'll miss her.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • He took the goblet and sat in the silver chair I indicated.   (source)
    indicated = pointed to or nodded toward
  • We don't know, but there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left.   (source)
    indicate = suggest (possibly show)
  • Intelligence had indicated that they may have already waited too long.   (source)
    indicated = suggested (that something is true)
  • There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof.   (source)
    indication = sign (to show something else)
  • PARRIS: Why, sir—I discovered her—indicating Abigail—and my niece and ten or twelve of the other girls, dancing in the forest last night.   (source)
    indicating = pointing to or nodding toward (expressing that she is the one he is talking about)
  • He indicates with his hands.   (source)
    indicates = shows, expresses, or demonstrates
  • She nudges her head behind her, indicating she wants privacy.   (source)
    indicating = showing (saying without words)
  • Most houses on the connecting four blocks give little indication that anyone is awake inside.   (source)
    indication = sign (to show, express, or demonstrate something else)
  • I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or corn had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound.   (source)
    indicator = pointer or gauge (that shows the weight)
  • I could only hear his voice; it was the sole indication that he was alive.   (source)
    indication = sign or demonstration
  • All he has to do is admit he was wrong, to indicate, demonstrate rational contact, and the treatment would be canceled this time.   (source)
    indicate = show or demonstrate
  • Shall we carry on? Hally? (He indicates the exercise book)   (source)
    indicates = points out
  • Sally Jean's face, solemn and defeated, was indication enough that she had not heard what she wanted to hear.   (source)
    indication = a sign that showed
  • I strove to look stern, thoughtful, and noncommittal all at once. I pulled at my beard, which is said to indicate concentration.   (source)
    indicate = express or demonstrate
  • MARIA Down to here. [Indicates her waist.]   (source)
    indicates = shows, expresses, or demonstrates
  • I have been listening very closely, and it seems to me that this man—[he indicates the 8TH JUROR] has some very good points to make.   (source)
    indicates = points out
  • That is to say that at that stage of the affair some hocus-pocus is clearly indicated-and that Armstrong was deceived by it and sent to his death.   (source)
    indicated = demonstrated (shown or suggested to have happened)
  • [Scotty re-enters from the bathroom and indicates to Tom Junior that Chance is not there.]   (source)
    indicates = expresses
  • I picked it up with a weary bend and handed it back to her, holding it at arm's length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs upon it — but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.   (source)
    indicate = demonstrate
  • ...as the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of lights. The general chuckled. "They indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none: giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as..."   (source)
    indicate = point out (show by a sign)
  • 'I wish I'd had a brother instead of two whiny little kiddy sisters,' said Peter. This was always recognized as indicating the high-water mark of Peter's rage.   (source)
    indicating = showing
  • From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of Uncle Sam's government is here established.   (source)
  • I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, appear to dismay them.   (source)
  • It's only an indication of the potential a tribute showed in training.†   (source)
  • Kalo had indicated a distance of about a yard.†   (source)
  • General Chang indicated that he should remain seated.†   (source)
  • I held my fingers up in front of me to indicate the tally.†   (source)
  • The Count inclined his head to indicate his congratulations.†   (source)
  • My slipping grades were the first indication.†   (source)
  • Pepan indicates Lale standing behind him.†   (source)
  • Lotte indicated the workshop door.†   (source)
  • In fact, the bullet wound indicated that the muzzle was touching her skin.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed to indicate that he'd be getting a fist in the face.†   (source)
  • The articles indicated that the shooter, Richard Antonio Moore, would likely receive the death penalty.†   (source)
  • My avatar's present location was indicated by a flashing blue dot.†   (source)
  • There was not a thing to indicate that the group was making any progress at all across the desert.†   (source)
  • I called him Mamaji, mama being the Tamil word for uncle and ji being a suffix used in India to indicate respect and affection.†   (source)
  • When the bell rings to indicate that it's time for Mr. Dimming's class, my palms feel sweaty.†   (source)
  • A low voice and soft address are the common indications of a well-bred woman.†   (source)
  • We used to play Tarot cards for fun, and my indicator card always turned out to be from the suit of pentacles.†   (source)
  • History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.†   (source)
  • The monitoring ABI agents were left with nothing to suggest any relationship between Myers and McMillian and plenty of evidence indicating that the two men had never met.†   (source)
  • They caught it in the bottles as Professor Sprout had indicated, and by the end of the lesson had collected several pints.†   (source)
  • "Or do you want to waste the rest of your life here?" and with bony fingers he indicated the graveyard and the night.†   (source)
  • Your intelligent response to the dog indicates strong alignment with the Erudite.†   (source)
  • Mr. Poe put up his hands to indicate he had heard enough.†   (source)
  • Let the record indicate that Mr. Cruz has identified Mr. King.†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor had indicated unequivocally that he wished to commit suicide.†   (source)
  • The others shook their heads, indicating they hadn't either.†   (source)
  • There was no indication what they stood for.†   (source)
  • "Indicating 'yes'?"†   (source)
  • Mrs. Murry indicated a chair.†   (source)
  • " As Hilly tells us the story of Yule May, she makes a big circle with her finger to indicate a huge stone, the unimaginable worth of the "ruby.†   (source)
  • It is one of the many indications we have that dinosaurs aren't really reptiles at all.†   (source)
  • Every few minutes his voice would rise again as he called out a line or two, indicating where everyone should be in the prayer book.†   (source)
  • The indication that my father truly was beside himself was the way he had carried his argument with us to others.†   (source)
  • "What about Elise?" the queen said, indicating a blond young woman clad in lavender.†   (source)
  • Fathers had come running From their workplaces, only to stand in front of their empty houses with no indication of where their families had gone.†   (source)
  • I said angrily—indicating, of course, how much I cared.†   (source)
  • Circles with black indicate the proportion of foreign blood.†   (source)
  • He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.†   (source)
  • He put on his turn indicator and pulled back out into the lane.†   (source)
  • With his head bent over in the lamplight I could discern a slight mound in his brow above the eyebrows, the faint bulge which is usually believed to indicate mental power.†   (source)
  • Just as the name indicated, the Red Successors were the next generation of revolutionaries, and when they were old enough, they would become Red Guards.†   (source)
  • My first indication that my life would never be the same again came just as we were leaving the hospital.†   (source)
  • He forgave this punctuation only in his mother's letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke.†   (source)
  • He immediately set to work digging a pit where Ezinma had indicated.†   (source)
  • "We've reached safe-abort," another person called out, indicating that the ship could crash harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean if necessary.†   (source)
  • "Sign 4x where indicated," it read.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, someone presses a square metal button on their table to flick on a light, indicating they require a servant.†   (source)
  • She motioned to where it hurt, indicating that Wren reach below the towel.†   (source)
  • "I found these here," she said, indicating the leather gloves.†   (source)
  • It can be difficult to distinguish them from common folk, though there are certain indicators.†   (source)
  • Did you ever, at any time, indicate to your niece that she was not to associate with this woman?†   (source)
  • I shivered and shook my head indicating that I was very cold.†   (source)
  • She makes no announcement indicating that there is more.†   (source)
  • That is the final step, which is done when all the ingredients have been ground as indicated in the recipe.†   (source)
  • They looked at everything that could conceivably be an indication of real-world success.†   (source)
  • He nods to a stone placard, indicating I read it.†   (source)
  • Eleanor had never even heard the N-word said out loud until she moved here, but the kids on her bus used it like it was the only way to indicate that somebody was black.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sure that would be the indication of peace your father had been striving for."†   (source)
  • It came to me now and then even though everything people told me seemed to indicate that he was waiting.†   (source)
  • I nodded to him to indicate that I was not afraid and that I wanted to be alone with Jefferson.†   (source)
  • If the date's any indication, this was right after the American State of China started fighting back, just before the Fourth World War.†   (source)
  • There's no indication that Henrietta questioned him; like most patients in the 1950s, she deferred to anything her doctors said.†   (source)
  • "That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.†   (source)
  • She indicated the sullen-faced boys on the nearby bunks.†   (source)
  • In a —" he gestured, to indicate a sling —"what do you call it.†   (source)
  • Alex allows himself one small indication of nervousness: He curls and flexes his fingers against his thighs.†   (source)
  • Tamar indicated markers as they went.†   (source)
  • She indicates a door.†   (source)
  • A dip in pressure would indicate a rip, which could prove fatal in the long term.†   (source)
  • If Tim had any inkling of the effect Savannah had on me or that I'd be visiting again the next day, he gave no indication.†   (source)
  • A janitor set up a sign indicating a wet floor.†   (source)
  • When Garrow indicated his approval, Merlock picked it up.†   (source)
  • We were driving along and one of the long metal screws kept hitting the signal indicator as I was driving.†   (source)
  • Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.†   (source)
  • "If she's Nine, like the note we found indicated, and the Mogadorians were tracking her, it's a good thing that she vanished.†   (source)
  • Colonel Kassad shook his head, whether in refusal to respond or to indicate that he was not a member of the Shrike Church, it was not clear.†   (source)
  • "The first should be an indicator card," he went on, grabbing a white card with four squares marked on it and displaying it.†   (source)
  • She hinted that if the biology test was any indication of the contents of his mind, he might well be eligible to play ball after Christmas, and catch the last part of the season.†   (source)
  • Certainly he was not indicating that he was one of them or even liked them.†   (source)
  • But the needle on the compass indicated they were headed north.†   (source)
  • It is a marvelously small ear, and at the top it is shaped and carved after the fashion in which old sculptors indicated deviltry and vice in their statues of satyrs.†   (source)
  • Plus, it indicates that you've read him, right?†   (source)
  • And here she swept her arm around, indicating about a dozen offices surrounding the open space.†   (source)
  • "Ah, the woods," his father said, still W. C. Fields as he indicated the beginning of a section of trees and brush that ran for a mile or so toward the state highway.†   (source)
  • Apparently he did not know of the regulation that forbade prisoners to step on the mat, for he indicated that I was to walk ahead of him down the center of the hall.†   (source)
  • There was an indication of a palm tree going up too.†   (source)
  • Even now, in the dark, there were indications of a spirit world.†   (source)
  • If Cabin Seven was any indication, each god's cabin could hold beds for about twenty campers.†   (source)
  • Da5id notices Hiro, indicates with a flick of his eyes that this is not a good time.†   (source)
  • Consumer research indicated that future sales in some key areas were at risk.†   (source)
  • Most seemed to feel that the Dragon Lady should be jabbed to death with hot forks, and most indicated they would be very willing to serve as a jabber.†   (source)
  • My mother tried to get us settled somewhere but all indications pointed to our going back to the land of her birth, to her red earth, her Mexico.†   (source)
  • Ellerby gives me the high sign—he's alone in his lane by now-indicating he'll set the pace for this one.†   (source)
  • I did not know whether she had noticed me sitting in the car, and, if she had, she offered no indication.†   (source)
  • "It's not a very good one, if their clothes are any indication," Miss Milhouse said scornfully.†   (source)
  • Then I tap my pencil on the table to indicate time passing ominously.†   (source)
  • "Everything looks wrong, false, weird, like in dreams, and now," he murmured, turning his head to indicate the surroundings outside, "now we're flying.†   (source)
  • It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off.†   (source)
  • The battery indicator on the right-hand side was visibly falling, bar by bar.†   (source)
  • "Look at that," he said, indicating a space higher up on the wall.†   (source)
  • But a hundred things should have indicated to you that my father is a figure of unusual distinction from whom you may learn a wealth of things were you prepared to be more observant.†   (source)
  • She had educated herself enough about cancer treatment to know that 208 indicated metastasis: a death sentence.†   (source)
  • 'Look,' he said, indicating the crowd at the Umschlagplatz.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the baying indicated that they had found something, only to have it disappear again.†   (source)
  • "Please," he said, indicating for me to follow him into his office, and I did, feeling sick, dizzy all the way.†   (source)
  • "Your scancard indicates that it's almost time for your formal sorting test."†   (source)
  • "I've told you how to make sense of that," she said, her irritated tone indicating they'd had this particular discussion before.†   (source)
  • His grade there indicates inferior work.†   (source)
  • Coming inside was obviously a good sign, but that shouldn't be misread as an indication that the next steps will be any easier than the last, the doctor warns me.†   (source)
  • He had his mother's cadence, the delivery that indicated everything he said was something you'd want to hear.†   (source)
  • This news encouraged Florentino Ariza, since it indicated to him that the beautiful adolescent with the almond-shaped eyes was within reach of his dreams.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor spoke in the same low, steady tone he used during Council hearings, then raised an eyebrow to indicate that it was Wells's turn to talk.†   (source)
  • He saw no shields or any indication of their use.†   (source)
  • I had a D in math—but that did indicate improvement.†   (source)
  • Road signs indicate detours ahead.†   (source)
  • The medical staff never gave any indication of that.†   (source)
  • The parents may be one of the best indications of the future temperament of your new puppy.†   (source)
  • Horace indicated for Art Moran the blood that had clotted in the dura mater and the tear in it where the piece of brain protruded.†   (source)
  • This indicates something of the common background of these three religions.†   (source)
  • Valerie pushed aside her black bangs and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off.†   (source)
  • "I like it," he said, indicating their surroundings.†   (source)
  • She just inclined her head faintly to indicate she'd heard me.†   (source)
  • Initial reports indicated the three of you were originally suspected of starting the fire, but it was proven Miss Lister herself was responsible.†   (source)
  • He indicates over his shoulder where Minerva and Lio are immersed in an intent conversation in a corner of the galena.†   (source)
  • In his report, Virchow expressed a fundamental law of epidemiology: "If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life."†   (source)
  • Salander glowered back with an expression that did not indicate any warm feelings.†   (source)
  • Five hundred Japanese families lived there then, and FBI deputies had been questioning everyone, ransacking houses for anything that could conceivably be used for signaling planes or ships or that indicated loyalty to the Emperor.†   (source)
  • These two opposing forces clash within her, but the final victory belongs to the power source that indicates awakening.†   (source)
  • "He'll do the actual work," the Turk said, indicating the Sicilian, who was wrapping cloth around his cuts.†   (source)
  • "Likewise," he continued, "men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children."†   (source)
  • Left nothing in the house amiss, left no indication they had searched for anything with the possible exception of [Clutter's] billfold.†   (source)
  • There was no indication of how badly they'd been hurt'or worse.†   (source)
  • After a while we grew tired of waiting, so we set off across the street to see if there was any indication as to when the shop would reopen.†   (source)
  • If that was any indication of the rest of senior year, this school will be anything but boring.†   (source)
  • "Their night," she said, indicating the vanished Eric and Vivaldo, "is just beginning.†   (source)
  • "I hope to be able to indicate," I explained, "that this case is a trial of the aspirations of the African people, and because of that I thought it proper to conduct my own defense."†   (source)
  • The only trouble was that Milo had never heard of any of the places it indicated, and even the names sounded most peculiar.†   (source)
  • This, along with enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes indicates a clear pattern of--†   (source)
  • The Augurs will not interfere, for we found nothing to indicate that the Farrars cheated.†   (source)
  • A sign by a glass door says CASUALTY DEPT. Monet hands the driver some money and gets out of the taxi and opens the glass door and goes over to the reception window and indicates that he is very ill.†   (source)
  • Luma came upon a small grocery store with a sign indicating that it was a Middle Eastern market called Talars.†   (source)
  • An ordinary day, nothing to indicate otherwise.†   (source)
  • Please indicate Dr. Rogers will not be in.†   (source)
  • She indicated a spot on the other side of the drive where, in fact, there was a metal pole, no sign attached.†   (source)
  • There ain't a spinning mill in the country that won't save money by putting in the indicator, and paying us a good royalty on it.†   (source)
  • Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, miraculously you receive the smallest sign or indication that you're on the right track.†   (source)
  • Another indication of teacher cheating in classroom A is the class's overall performance.†   (source)
  • Records for 1870 indicate that fire-fighting companies responded to nearly 600 alarms.†   (source)
  • "What's that?" she asked, indicating the little metal box I had placed on the table.†   (source)
  • The captain made his own visual inspection of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic indicators.†   (source)
  • So far that hadn't happened, but riding up at breakfast time on a gant horse was an indication of trouble.†   (source)
  • The number of prostitutes in Sweden dropped by 41 percent in the first five years, according to one count, and the price of sex dropped, too--a pretty good indication that demand was down.†   (source)
  • He waved his arm, indicating the kids at their games: football, figuring, little kids skipping or playing shops and houses.†   (source)
  • What had I ever done to indicate that I was irresponsible or didn't have my priorities straight?†   (source)
  • Cole looked at where he was indicating.†   (source)
  • His actions on his final mission were indicative of the way he lived his life.†   (source)
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