Example Sentences

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He replied in the affirmative, and observed that he had been inclining to that opinion for some time.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

For many centuries the religion of the priests and scribes had been inclining to pantheism.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Latterly she had been inclining more and more to the belief that the women had something to do with it as well.

From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard