How to Use infer in a Sentence

infer

verb

• Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
• It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
• Allowing the young group to shy away from the pressure would infer there was a way out.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• Both blind and sighted people inferred movement from the start and stop of sounds.
  — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
• Behavior is one of the hardest things to infer from the fossil record.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• The emotional meanings of his work have to be inferred.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2023
• These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• The researchers compared early dog genomes to ancient wolves to infer where the first dogs might have evolved.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2022
• Once trained, the system could be fed partial data and infer what the rest was likely to be.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
• Scientists could only infer the number of teeth on many of the gears.
  — Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
• A timeline for the evolution of the solar system can be inferred.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
• But to infer he wasn’t fully engaged would be a mistake.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 July 2020
• The research used satellite techniques to infer changes to glacier grounding lines based on changes in the height of the glacier's surface.
  — Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• There is a logic to this: Intentions are hard to infer and easy to lie about.
  — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Any such hope, the reader is left to infer, will come from people like the ones living their lives in this book.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
• So from that one would infer that there would be a lot of genetic variation.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
• One might infer that this year's oysters were bruisers.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
• That’s inferred, not the work of the author, who takes pains to avoid any hint of partisanship.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• It can be inferred that U.S. cities will continue to feel the brunt of the wildfire smoke.
  — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The jets are one way astronomers can indirectly infer the presence of a black hole.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
• First, the team set out to investigate whether people infer guilt from anger.
  — Hbs Working Knowledge, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Most satellites have to infer wind speed by tracking the movements of clouds or tiny aerosol particles.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 4 June 2020
• Our task in conversation isn’t just to infer what others want to say.
  — N.j. Enfield, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Astronomers can use that stretch to infer how long the signal has been traveling, and thus, when the first stars flicked on.
  — Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
• The state is asking me to infer from the circumstances that there was a conscious decision. ...
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 22 May 2018
• That enabled them to infer the rate at which the cancer itself was spreading among devils.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 10 Dec. 2020
• One strategy is to infer the existence of predators by looking at the prey.
  — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 9 June 2016
• So things aren’t quite as bad for Roku as one might infer from Monday’s plunge.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• Those jets are one way astronomers can indirectly infer the presence of a black hole.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
• This story seems to infer there’s just no way to reconcile the profit-seeking part.
  — Curbed, 14 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024