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
• Mexican mysticism, inflected by pre-Columbian and Catholic cultures, informs much of the work.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Moreover, the inner tension of that style inflects the rest of the film; Schrader’s spare image-making here reaches an apogee of lyricism, his sense of essential ornament appears forged in fire.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• The group's signature twinkling guitars still dance on their tiptoes, and frontman Ezra Koenig still inflects plenty of lyrical sincerity into the proceedings.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024