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• The workers stopped the rig on an incline and scotched the wheels.From the entry scotch
• The walks in this area have a gentle incline.From the entry gentle
• "I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline.2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 54. From the entry interviewer
• “Your mental attitude, Martin, always inclines to the flippant and dicacious.2004 July 2 (reprint date; date of first publication unknown), Hugh McAlister, The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a…. From the entry dicacious
• “The idol-singers,” he said, starting up the hump-backed incline of the bridge.1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry idoru
• This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing .1989 ·, Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, The Senses of Stanley Cavell, page 234. From the entry misinflect
• When the patient bruxes, he uses his supporting cusps to wear away the restraining inclines.1976, Norman R. Arnold, Occlusal Treatment: Preventive and Corrective Occlusal Adjustment. From the entry brux
• Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption. From the entry dandy cart
• A cascade of small, indignant girls were tobogganing sidewise down the incline.1902, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. From the entry tobogganing
• Stationary engines hauled wagons up and down inclines, and trains on the more level bits in between were pulled by horses.2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Cromford & High Peak”, in RAIL, number 974, page 48. From the entry stationary engine
• The dolphin is struggling, trudging as if it were a burro trying to go up a rocky incline—a sea donkey.2010, T. M. Shine, Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You, page 57. From the entry sea donkey
• I incline to hard because of the derivation from giga.1968, N. W. Pirie, More About the Units (Nature vol. 220). From the entry gillion
• Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . .1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page…. From the entry necessitousness
• As in Bunsen and other pumps which incline to temperamentality, slight differences of construction sometimes lead to large changes in efficiency.1925, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science. From the entry temperamentality
• Ahead of us to-night is a stiffish incline and it looks as though there might be pressure behind it.1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I. From the entry stiffish
• The drops worked by chaldron wagons being taken up the incline, and their loads dropped down chutes into tenders of steam locomotives waiting below.2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 54. From the entry chaldron
• The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."2021 September 8, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Electric tramways at the heart of our seaside story”, in RAIL, number 939, page 59. From the entry limit
• Later in his life Tolstoy was given a Remington understroke typewriter but his spirituality did not incline him to use labor-saving machines.2021, Steve Hickey, Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics. From the entry understroke
• Reportedly he is, too, rather free with his 'uxter' — that's money, Watson — which inclines the locals to look favourably on him.2018, James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust. From the entry uxter
• In a study of transhumanists and video games, fully twothirds of the participants claimed that video games incline players toward a transhuman sense of self.2014, Robert M. Geraci, Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life, →ISBN. From the entry transhuman
• The barge pulled up at the waterstop; she allowed the young men to leave first and then followed them up the incline to Greenwich Palace.2009, Virginia Henley, The Raven and the Rose, page 292. From the entry waterstop
• At the beginning of our trip my sother couldn't pull away from a light if the car was on the slightest backward incline.1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, archived from the original on 05 Aug…. From the entry pull away
• When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards.1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal. From the entry somewhere
• The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116. From the entry haul
• Roberts, whereby the latter granted the company a wayleave under which it constructed a railway and incline from its property to the Croesor Tramway.1941 June, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 250. From the entry wayleave
• Mobbish feeling always inclines to violence.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry mobbish
• Rewanui has a regular service of passenger trains, which are allowed 30 min. for the ascent of the incline, and 5 min. less for the descent.1955 January, “Notes and News: Fell-Operated Inclines, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 63. From the entry Rewanui
• Whether these were the karls or the thralls is the only problem, and I incline to think that there is little room for doubt that these were the karls.a. 1936, Ian B[ernard] Stoughton Holbourn, “Udal Property and the Kings of Foula”, in The Isle of Foula: A Series of Articles on Britain’s…. From the entry karl
• Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both?1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34. From the entry bestagger

Meaning of incline

1. verb To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
2. verb To slope.
3. verb To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

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Questions about incline in a sentence

How do you use incline in a sentence?

Incline is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.”

What is a short sentence with incline?

“the Pleasant Street Incline”

What does incline mean?

Incline means to bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.