Example Sentences
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“If you have to venture north or south, you are destined to hit inclines that are not for every able body.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Mr. Waterfield inclines toward Hobbes’s “they that have odds of power exact as much as they can, and the weak yield to such conditions as they can get.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Just a short distance away pilgrims were walking up the steep inclines of Slieve Patrick to the St Patrick monument.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
There are a couple of entr’actes in which the clown, teased by his former supervisor, inclines toward the Grinchy.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Baraa inclines his head to acknowledge my mother’s words.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
