between the lines

Idioms and Phrases

see read between the lines .

Example Sentences

The thing that is really interesting to me now reading the news or listening to a government official speak, is reading in between the lines.

From Los Angeles Times

This year, Banned Books Week will run from September 22-28 with the theme "Freed Between the Lines."

From Salon

This sense of alienation was a defining feature of the early 2000s, as people struggled to make sense of a rapidly changing world, and the album captured that cognitive dissonance with raw honesty in songs like “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”: “Read between the lines / What’s f**ked up and everything’s alright / Check my vital signs.”

From Salon

In the absence of any official Israeli comment, a certain amount of reading between the lines is needed.

From BBC

But the real story that emerges between the lines is that anyone who believed that John Roberts was a principled movement conservative but also a Never Trumper was wrong.

From Slate

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