Collocations for "suggest"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "suggest" in context.
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suggest
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- suggest a [movie, book, song]
- suggest a [movie] to your [friends, family, class]
- can you suggest a (good) [movie]?
- can you suggest anything (for)...?
- suggest a [restaurant, hotel]
- suggest a [correction, change]
- I suggest you [use, try, ask, take, check, get, wait]
- I would suggest you [use]
- I am not suggesting that you [use]
- suggested (that) we [use]
- suggests [using, trying, waiting]
- suggests the [absence, possibility, presence, existence] of
- the [experimental, evidence, investigation] suggests that
- [the music, her face] suggests [peace, harmony]
'suggest' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
acceptable
- afraid
- comparison
- compelling
- consultant
- cricket
- daring
- decent
- deceptive
- diet
- estimate
- evidence
- excerpt
- first
- gall
- inaccurate
- inappropriate
- inconvenient
- initial
- lousy
- ludicrous
- madness
- maverick
- misleading
- modest
- naive
- outrageous
- plausible
- politic
- preliminary
- preposterous
- provisional
- reasonable
- recent
- report
- ridiculous
- scarcely
- simply
- situation
- subject
- tentative
- thoughtless
- understatement
- uptight
- venture
- viable