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How to use inclination in a sentence

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Inclination means a physical tilt or bend. Example: “The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.”

Examples of inclination by meaning

nounA physical tilt or bend.

  • The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.

nounA slant or slope.

  • The road up to the house had a steep inclination.
  • The gradients on the western part of the line are generally easy, although there is a rise at 1 in 55 before Manorbier, and a fall at the same inclination beyond that station.1959 October, H. A. Vallance, “The Pembroke & Tenby Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 668

nounA tendency.

  • His inclination to drink escalated to alcoholism.

nounThe angle of intersection of a reference plane.

  • The astronomer calculated the inclination of the equator or ecliptic of Earth and the orbital planes of each visible heavenly body.
  • Artillery must take account of a weapon's precise inclination.

More sentences with inclination

  • But driving here, I’d got the inclination this was a very nice part of town.2024, Madi Leigh, chapter 7, in What Are The Odds?: A college hockey romance, →ISBN. From the entry reversing camera
  • As a judge, I cannot stultify myself to satisfy my personal feelings and inclinations.2017, “Why Me?” (27:33 from the start), in The Deuce, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Judge Aaron Bressler (Stephen Singer), HBO. From the entry stultify
  • My immediate inclination was to send her to the nearby Sekolah Kebangsaan - or National School.2016 November 25, Dharm Navaratnam, “Thank you to everyone in the SK Seri Hartamas community”, in Malaysiakini. From the entry national school
  • The prefix omni means "combining all." Each omnivert will have either an extroverted or introverted inclination.2010 October 1, Nancy Reeves, Spirituality for Extroverts: and Tips for Those Who Love Them, Abingdon Press, →ISBN. From the entry omnivert
  • Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Culture Codex entry. From the entry self-sacrifice
  • During cementing, the cementing centroscope is used to unify the inclination of the optical and mechanical axis.2008, Bernhard Braunecker, Rüdiger Hentschel, Hans J. Tiziani, Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements, →ISBN, page 362. From the entry centroscope
  • Vecchione, strongly hinted of his inclination yesterday morning in remarks addressed to Justice Gustin L.2007 November 1, Michael Brick, “Ex-F.B.I. Agents Trial Fizzles, as Does Witness”, in New York Times. From the entry nonjury
  • There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way.2006, Oliver O'Donovan, The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine. From the entry philautia
  • We do not have the time, need or inclination to netsurf to meet people only in cyberspace.1999, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity, page 27. From the entry netsurf
  • I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person.1979 January 8, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Statement”, in Newsletter, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry gender
  • But I have no inclination left to be a reginacide or even a jeering republican.1950, Geoffrey Grigson, The Crest on the Silver: An Autobiography, London: Cresset Press, page 167. From the entry reginacide
  • Observe, I say, opinion—conscientious opinion, not whim or personal inclination or prejudice.”1924, The Life and Work of Mary Aikenhead: Foundress of the Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity, 1787-1858, by a Member of the…. From the entry consultress
  • We have scant inclination to elucidate his aniadum and aquastor, or explain his evestrum and erodinium.[1912, Victor Robinson, Pathfinders in Medicine, page 52. From the entry aquastor
  • Here it is not the judgment that is convinced, but the inclinations and passions.1908, William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein, The Problem of Logic, page 288. From the entry argumentum ad passiones
  • “Because of our cultural inclination, we incorporate shambo elements in our music to spice things up,” says Khasi.2018 October 12, Michael Kayunde, “Pushing Urban Shambo”, in The Namibian. From the entry shambo
  • Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet). From the entry prestige
  • These are a periselene altitude reduction and an inclination increase.2013, Christopher Russell, Vassilis Angelopoulos, The ARTEMIS Mission, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry periselene
  • The standard arguments in circulation at the time often began by pointing to women's “natural” inclination not to be social.2012, Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry unclubbable
  • The prevalent attitude was at best one of indifference or of inclination to kick into the long grass.2011, P. G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights. From the entry kick into the long grass
  • In subsequent chapters, workers demonstrate a strong inclination to vranyo.2007, David Shulman, From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry vranyo
  • Recuperatively speaking, that inclination was all to the good.2004, Kat Meads, Sleep: A Novel. From the entry recuperatively
  • I know what I'm looking for, and I don't have the time or inclination to wait until it finds me.2001 February, Melinda Marshall, “You Gotta Have Friends”, in Myrna Blyth, editor, Ladies’ Home Journal, New York, N.Y.: Meredith…. From the entry sniff test
  • We need to watch out for our psychophobic inclination to take a pill and go back to sleep.2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025. From the entry psychophobic
  • The first sheet feed tray unit is in a backward rising inclination and replenishingly accommodates therein a plurality of sheets.1999 December 14, Yuji Koga, Printing device having dual sheet feed trays, US Patent 6,000,870, column 3. From the entry replenishingly
  • Next up the valley beyond him lived Phineas Cowan, whose inclinations, in spite of his advanced age, were lustful and lickerous.1992, Tony Hillerman, The Best of the West. From the entry lickerous
  • Putting this approach into action requires resisting our inclination to overpersonalize our role in problems and miss the systemwide issues.1974, Samuel A. Culbert, The organization trap and how to get out of it, page 140. From the entry overpersonalize
  • It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 149. From the entry militate
  • A large positive inclination gives a chip which will helix out of the space between the face mill and the workpiece.1953, Division of Metrology Technical Paper - Issues 1-7, page 25. From the entry helix
  • His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.1936 Sept. 15, F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter to Beatrice Dance. From the entry melancholy
  • That overcorrection might nurture confirmation bias, an inclination to look for evidence that validates one's fears while ignoring any signs to the contrary.2025 December 20, Hanna Notte, “Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over Russia threat”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times…. From the entry confirmation bias
  • Most varieties spoken in and around Xiamen (Hk: Ē-mûin, Ml: Emoei), Taiwan, and Southeast Asia constitute intermediate dialects with varying inclinations toward Zhangzhounese and Quanzhounese.2021 August 15, Tom G. Hoogervorst, Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949, Cornell University Press…. From the entry Zhangzhounese
  • In other words, the acoustic markers of Blackness are not just about differentiating the vocal utterings and tonal inclinations of particular cultures.2019, Nina Eidsheim, Katherine Meizel, The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies, page 217. From the entry soundingness
  • Fig. 1 indicates that close encounters are negligible at aponigricon and for inclinations in the range 60–90° in both prograde and retrograde orbits.2013 June, R de la Fuente Marcos, C de la Fuente Marcos, “Colliding with G2 near the Galactic Centre: a geometrical approach”, in Monthly…. From the entry aponigricon
  • Now that you're certifiably — albeit temporarily — unemployed, you can explore places you've never before had the time, or the inclination, to explore.2008, Nicholas J. Nigro, No Job? No Prob!. From the entry certifiably

Meaning of inclination

  1. noun A physical tilt or bend.
  2. noun A slant or slope.
  3. noun A tendency.

Full definition of inclination

Questions about inclination in a sentence

How do you use inclination in a sentence?
Inclination is used as a noun. For example: “The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.”
What is a short sentence with inclination?
“His inclination to drink escalated to alcoholism.”
What does inclination mean?
Inclination means a physical tilt or bend.

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