incline
verb (used without object)
to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
has inclined
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present perfectof incline (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Washington traditionally has inclined toward optimism in its thinking about the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
The total absence of any trace of fossils has inclined many geologists to attribute the origin of the most ancient strata to an azoic period, or one antecedent to the existence of organic beings.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Now I know for certain that you are; and therefore I give praise to God, who has inclined my heart to the love of such great perfection.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
Our knowledge of the severely moral bent of the explicit art criticism of the Greeks has inclined many to accept the first interpretation; and modern interests impel in the same direction.
From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
“Nature has inclined us to love men,” said Cicero, “and this is the foundation of the law.”
From The Sympathy of Religions by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
