Used in a Sentence

clue

How to use clue in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for clue.

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I have no clue who will fund it.

Examples13
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a slight indication

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of clue gathered in one view.

noun

a slight indication

noun

evidence that helps to solve a problem

verb

roll into a ball

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clue.

noun

a slight indication

noun

evidence that helps to solve a problem

verb

roll into a ball

Example sentences

1

I have no clue who will fund it.

2

It's clear that the author has no clue what really happens in either case, and he proceeds to draw conclusions anyway.

3

If you aren't smart enough to write that C code safely... and the first clue that you aren't is that you think that you are... you don't stand a chance.

4

Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku".

5

What's with this stupid title where you have to read the thing to have any clue what it is about?Imagine if the front page were full with these kind of titles.

6

Most of us know that there's a world of difference between those two patterns of use and the types of people who pursue them, but most of society has no clue.

7

He also recently added "cyberwar" to his extensive portfolio of things he has absolutely no clue of.

8

I reflected on my social experiences and realized that because of my inherent fear of being looked down upon, I had the habit of pretending to understand things that in reality I had no clue.

9

And almost nobody has any clue there's any difference between say, an ITA and a Hipmunk, even though one has a million lines of code and runs thousands of machines and the other has a fairly standard website.

10

Mental abuse is no better than physical abuse, and given I don't buy that hitting developers with sticks makes them "better" somehow I'm also not going to buy into clue-by-four beatings being any better.

11

Younger folks might not have a clue that certain things don't have to be the way they are, while an older person might be able to explain why a certain decision was made and then help them question whether it's still necessary today.

12

I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!

13

!I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment "because of potential tyranny", but don't try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the first line of defense against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it's the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use clue in a sentence?

I have no clue who will fund it.

What does clue mean?

a slight indication

What part of speech is clue?

clue is commonly used as noun, verb.