How to Use inflect in a Sentence

inflect

verb

• Most adjectives in English do not inflect for gender or number.
• Those stereotypes inflect, word by word, what the model says.
  — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
• That gives the stock room to work if margins improve and comp sales inflect even modestly.
  — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
• And how does that inflect your understanding of or approach to them?
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2022
• There are concerns that scores of Yanomani have been inflected by a youth who died of the disease.
  — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 14 Apr. 2020
• Free cash flow is inflecting higher for VZ.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
• Here even the simplest daily routines are inflected with loss.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
• The monkey doesn’t move (except to bang its drum), nor inflect any direct violence.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 21 Feb. 2025
• When the cash flows inflect, the market remembers quickly.
  — Bob Haber, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Researchers say many people have been asymptomatic – or didn't know they were inflected.
  — USA Today, 20 Apr. 2020
• Colors such as pallid rose and chartreuse are inflected with gold, and prints are inspired by nature.
  — Kavita Daswani, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• His work is often inflected with a tone of crass, satirical bigotry that leaves him just enough room to declare it all a joke.
  — Alan Feuer and Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• We have been inflected by the course of our lives, but only a few of us, possibly, radically changed.
  — Lydia Davis, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
• In this case, no user intervention, such as a prompt to click on a link, was required for an iPhone to get inflected.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2019
• Old English verbs also inflected for tense, person/number, and mood.
  — Michelle Sheehan, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• That is the tendency to inflect your judgment of a statement depending on the person making it.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
• Some avoid gender altogether, some gender just the pronouns, others inflect the nouns, too.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
• This is the ideal rental for a group of friends who want their Italian getaway to feel inflected with nostalgic pizzazz.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 8 July 2025
• His own voice is nasal and inflected, a deft instrument that can carve a slice of experiences ranging from comic to tragic.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
• Kirk’s evangelicalism inflected both the tone and content of his message.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
• That phantom quality, that question of who wrote what, inflects everything Steely Dan did.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
• The works trick the eye into seeing the places where beauty becomes enfolded with violence, where the gleam of the universe is inflected with gore.
  — Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
• This is a perfectly predictable outgrowth of an Ayn Rand–inflected movement.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Jan. 2018
• McArthur, or a Spanish-speaking officiant, would run through a script, inflecting here, pausing there.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Stranger Things 2, though, is inflected from the start with the sense that, even a year later, its characters are still deeply altered by what happened to them.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2017
• The lower ceiling is finished with the matte surface of drywall, and the overall palette is a variation of grays inflected with warm aubergine tones.
  — ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• Davis reflected on the tragedy of the situation and the trauma inflected on the surviving children.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
• To add to the complexity, smoke taint is inflected by subtle distinctions between grape varietals, too.
  — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
• Mexican mysticism, inflected by pre-Columbian and Catholic cultures, informs much of the work.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Calamari aren’t the usual thin threads of squid, but thick, ropy rectangles, piping hot and partnered with an Asian-inflected, peanut-tamarind-miso dipping sauce.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2019