How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

verb
  • How should we interpret the law?
  • We need someone to interpret these results for us.
  • I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
  • Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
  • That leaves the courts to interpret what is already on the books.
    Sam Whitehead and Julie Appleby, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The dramatists get to interpret the idea of hope in their own way.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • The Monk and the Gun is best interpreted in that context.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 27 July 2024
  • The agency says the tests should be easy enough for a lay person to use and interpret at home.
    Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The ultimate goal is to interpret the word of God in a way that changes lives.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • For those who can interpret them, the bones speak for the dead and educate the living.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
    Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • There are many ways to interpret that data, and one of them is this: Streep has lost 25 times.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Vow, viewers might interpret, is filling in the gaps.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
    Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Ratings are one of the best ways to interpret the Trump psyche.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
  • That's partly due to the change in light when the moon blocks the sun, but also the way our eyes and brain adjust to and interpret that change.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Take the time to interpret them, and valuable messages emerge.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2020
  • Gandhi said that part of the law hasn’t been interpreted by the board before.
    Melissa Daniels, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
  • From that standpoint, that is the way the public is interpreting it.
    Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Both were very easy to interpret and operate, even while on the move.
    Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Many of the night's guests chose to interpret the night's theme (which was a tribute to Lagerfeld's life and work) by paying homage to Choupette.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
  • What is the best way to interpret news reports about preprints?
    Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
  • School districts will interpret and act on this new set of rules.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This seems like a great leap, but it was interpreted that way and has since become lore.
    Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
  • There is a lot of vague language in the law, and uncertainty about how to interpret the rules.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Having Dave interpret one of our songs is success to me!
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This is interpreted as a lack of respect for their hard work.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This can interpret a signal (input) and perform an action (output) based on instructions supplied by the user.
    Bob Beacham, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Perhaps agreeable when very narrowly defined, the commissioner does not interpret his comments in such a way.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024

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