How to Use inflect in a Sentence

inflect

verb

• Most adjectives in English do not inflect for gender or number.
• The music was soul-inflected gospel with a hint of country.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2019
• But the Fed had hardly gotten started – the FFR was only at 1.5%, which should not have been enough to inflect the trend.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• And how does that inflect your understanding of or approach to them?
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2022
• His love comes out all wrong, inflected by a subtle ablism.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018
• Stranger Things 2, though, is inflected from the start with the sense that, even a year later, its characters are still deeply altered by what happened to them.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2017
• In this case, no user intervention, such as a prompt to click on a link, was required for an iPhone to get inflected.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2019
• His work is often inflected with a tone of crass, satirical bigotry that leaves him just enough room to declare it all a joke.
  — Alan Feuer and Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The short but exquisite menu of starters and mains changes daily, and a mix of French, Japanese, and Lebanese influences subtly inflect the food.
  — Sarah Moroz, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2017
• The Algarve is inflected with a North African influence.
  — Stacy Suaya, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2023
• That is the tendency to inflect your judgment of a statement depending on the person making it.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
• Gabriel García Márquez-inflected tale of a diva who returns home to Brazil in search of an erstwhile lover in the jungle — isn’t for everyone.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Oversight: One big risk — so big, in fact, that it could be considered a meta-risk that inflects all the rest — is the lack of existing regulation in this space.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
• A year later, in 1963, Trini Lopez’s Latin-inflected version reached No.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017
• Colors such as pallid rose and chartreuse are inflected with gold, and prints are inspired by nature.
  — Kavita Daswani, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Will the looming shadow of the nation’s scheduled withdrawal from the European Union on March 29—aka Brexit—inflect the season?
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2019
• Calamari aren’t the usual thin threads of squid, but thick, ropy rectangles, piping hot and partnered with an Asian-inflected, peanut-tamarind-miso dipping sauce.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The lower ceiling is finished with the matte surface of drywall, and the overall palette is a variation of grays inflected with warm aubergine tones.
  — ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• One is that the play opens a new line of inquiry as Nina (who is biracial) and William (who is multiracial) explore the way identity inflects their art and ambition.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• McArthur, or a Spanish-speaking officiant, would run through a script, inflecting here, pausing there.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some avoid gender altogether, some gender just the pronouns, others inflect the nouns, too.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
• Japanese flavors and ingredients inflect many of her dishes, as with the baked carrots with hazelnut and Nikka Black whiskey foam.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• That phantom quality, that question of who wrote what, inflects everything Steely Dan did.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
• His camo print is especially effective on a sports-inflected parka, intended for the street, not the slopes.
  — Vogue, 14 Jan. 2018
• Old English verbs also inflected for tense, person/number, and mood.
  — Michelle Sheehan, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• Throughout the house, Netto has mixed fine classical furnishings—Queen Anne–style chairs from the 1790s, a full-chintz guest room—with contemporary pieces that inflect the spaces with a bit of whimsy.
  — Howard Christian, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• This is a perfectly predictable outgrowth of an Ayn Rand–inflected movement.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Jan. 2018
• The books is structured around a series of misdeeds that cause tension and rifts amid the foursome—the last of which turns the book into something like a domestic thriller, inflected with the trauma of early motherhood.
  — Vogue, 31 May 2019
• The idea inflects Gerwig’s aesthetic, too, in a way that’s made clear, again, in the contrast between her filmmaking and that of Wes Anderson, the current cinema’s preëminent stylist.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
• The best Chakrabarti can do to inflect this sweeping political narrative is to let the audience hear an angry crowd outside early in the play, never to be heard from again.
  — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 13 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024