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
"What motive," said he to the lady, "has inclined you to come and see one who already has a foot in the grave, and of whose death you are yourself the cause?"
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
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
It is only in the last few years that the general political distress of Islâm has inclined the estranged relatives towards reconciliation.
From Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by C. Snouck Hurgronje
