Example Sentences

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Most spectators’ sympathies will incline immediately toward Gee, owing both to Kim’s sturdy affability and to our innate compassion for anyone demeaned or distrusted by officialdom.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

My disposition probably will incline me to think that best-case outcomes are just as reasonable to expect as dreary ones.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2018

“The more chaotic, abundant and junk-filled a society,” he explains, “the more its tastes in interiors will incline towards the minimalist, the austere and the tidy.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2015

Otherwise, both politicians and citizens will incline to satisfy their greater needs of economic well-being.

From Economist • Nov. 19, 2013

Such owners have more or less land deforested by fire or their own milling operations, and will incline to sell only stumpage without land.

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson