How to Use disinclined in a Sentence

disinclined

adjective

• And Moos might be disinclined to pull the plug on Riley.
  — OregonLive.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• The campaign for 2024 was a one-on-one race, and the I.O.C. seemed disinclined to declare a loser.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Mary, Miller’s first girlfriend and his wife of eleven years, seems to have been disinclined to forgive.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• Why are modern fathers so quick to anger, and so disinclined to talk about it?
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
• The judge, who made extremely short work of the case, appeared disinclined to indulge the suit.
  — Norman Eisen, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
• Those who have left this life behind seem disinclined to turn back.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2017
• Mr. Zukofsky, as time went on, seemed disinclined to do those things.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• The justices at the hearing seemed disinclined to buy Liu’s counsel’s claims, too.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
• He’s resigned to the consequences and is disinclined to change course.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Jayne, whose politics on this point were the same as mine, was disinclined to man the barricades, so to speak.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• For its part, Intel may have felt disinclined to cross any more swords with the government.
  — Polly Sprenger, WIRED, 25 Jan. 1999
• For now, the Israelis are focused on the immediate threat and are disinclined to widen the conflict.
  — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
• Some people are disinclined to see past their own risk horizons.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
• But that needn’t be church (in my irrelevant opinion) for one disinclined and on the cusp of adulthood.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• TVs are a challenge for Amazon, as consumers might be disinclined to buy a TV sight unseen.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• But the breast patients came anyway, referred by male surgeons disinclined to take them on.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• These days, even the nosiest monitors are disinclined to travel.
  — The Economist, 16 May 2020
• At the town hall, Iger put his foot down on the matter, saying Disney is disinclined to acquiesce to this request.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 16 May 2017
• Because big investments are hard to reverse, firms are disinclined to press ahead with them.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• That’s anyone’s guess for now, though an interview this week with the BBC may make some fans disinclined to continue watching the show.
  — Shannon Luders-Manuel, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Anecdotes suggest that many hunters may have been disinclined to buck-hunt only after the statewide gun season.
  — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 12 July 2019
• Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• For those disinclined to cold weather, the asymmetric windows, along with warm wood paneling, make for a rather scenic (and cozy) setup as well.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Supreme Court has seemed disinclined to distinguish life online from the physical world because the two modes are so deeply intertwined by now.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
• And some Republicans indeed seem disinclined to fight to protect the low effective tax rates of those megafirms.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Installing one means pulling an aircraft out of rotation, which airlines are disinclined to go.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2016
• For now both sides seem disinclined to continue shooting, but this incident could be the start of a new cold war between Washington and Tehran.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2020
• The public and the FCC are disinclined to accept higher prices in rural areas (which often have lower incomes).
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2018
• The old governor tells the new one to take a weekly dinner with Jamie to retain a good relationship, but the new governor is disinclined.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2017
• But then, bohemianism is first and foremost a state of mind—that of people who are disinclined to follow rules and formulas, and who value the notion of a life well lived.
  — Gregory Cerio, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2016

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