How to Use inversion in a Sentence

inversion

noun

• Inversion of the two words changes the meaning of the sentence.
• There was a strong capping inversion in place — a layer of warm air in place about a mile above the ground.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
• In May and June, cool, moist air gets trapped below that inversion.
  — Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Its train moves forward and backward, building up momentum to speed through the inversions, endless-loop style.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• With four topsy-turvy elements, Steel Vengeance has the most inversions for a hybrid.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2018
• Climbing to the top of the first loop, the train navigates a slow barrel roll at nearly 150 feet in the air that ranks as one of the world's tallest inversions.
  — Brady MacDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• But sometimes there’s there a point where the temperatures flip, which is called an inversion, and temperature increases with height.
  — Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Aerial yoga is particularly useful for people who want to do inversions (poses in which the head is lower than the heart) but cannot do them on their own.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 6 Oct. 2024
• The coaster travels at a top speed of 74 miles per hour, takes riders through four inversions, and clocks nearly 30 seconds of airtime.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2018
• In the past the recession has come in as little as six months, or as long as two years, after the inversion, the San Francisco Fed’s researchers note.
  — Matt Phillips, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• When playing villains, Carrey’s teeth-forward style becomes an inversion of the Roberts-Washington school of megawatt smiles.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
• Then Wonder Woman slams up and into what the park calls a raven inversion that sends passengers racing uphill and floating out of their seats only to get turned upside down and dropped back down to the ground.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
• The steep drops don’t seem to affect me like the inversions do.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The inversion of the yield curve also could hurt banks.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
• One of those flips, a corkscrew at 197 feet above the ground, sets a world record for highest inversion.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
• That’s kind of a wild inversion of what our values are and what our track record is.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
• The financial world has been atwitter about the inversion of the yield curve.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• More than a year of inversion in the yield curve between 2-year and 10-year Treasurys.
  — Karen Langley, WSJ, 25 July 2023
• For many Southerners, the arrival of Etheridge and his men was the inversion of that sight.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• If the launch speed wasn’t enough, Maxx Force has the world’s fastest inversion as passengers flip in the air at 60 mph.
  — Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Cardinals been an inversion of the Chiefs through the season thus far.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
• Last week, the inversion on yields reached its widest level since the early 1980s.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The good news is that a winter storm is expected to break up the inversion next week.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022
• The inversion—which last reached these levels a decade ago—has caught traders and investors off guard.
  — Sebastian Pellejero, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
• In a canny act of inversion, we, the ones watching, are winked at and ogled alongside her.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
• The storm will scour out the inversion and pollution in Utah’s valleys.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
• And there’s a fascinating inversion of the film-noir trope of the femme fatale.
  — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
• This inversion is a key signal that a downturn may be on its way.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 July 2019
• But in the wind’s place has come an inversion that has trapped a thick layer of smoke over much of Douglas County.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2020
• And Kamala Harris' tax policies are, in fact, the inversion of that.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024