How to Use inflection in a Sentence

inflection

noun

• She read the lines with an upward inflection.
• She spoke with no inflection.
• English has fewer inflections than many other languages.
• Most English adjectives do not require inflection.
• What does your voice inflection look like?
  — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• The rhythms, the tics, the inflections are simply not the same.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• If sound could be seen, tears of joy would have been dripping off each inflection.
  — Steven Goff, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• So the inflection will dictate the contours and the rhythm of the tune.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• In this case, a flat delivery was the right inflection to use.
  — Jay Sullivan, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• The cat cow pose is great for stretching your back and working on spinal inflection.
  — Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• Are you supposed to add more inflection and whatnot?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
• This allows for more nuance, emotion, and inflection in the cloned voice.
  — Jennifer Alsever, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• Practicing in the mirror, what does your voice inflection look like?
  — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• There’s a glint in their eye that wasn’t there before, or a slight inflection of excitement in their voice…joy.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Oct. 2022
• That’s because even when the songs don’t, the inflections, the arrangements do change.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
• So trying to get your voice there and control the inflections and all was very difficult.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
• The guys, just learning his voice inflection in the huddle for guys can be a big difference.
  — Les Bowen, Philly.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• The inflection told me the chimpanzees were surprised or uneasy.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Sometimes autism’s portrayed in movies with quirky head movements, weird blinks, and weird inflections.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
• And are there inflection points in the slope of the development of that number?
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
• Vocally, these songs expect so much from you with the harmonies and the inflections.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• There was her voice, sort of friendly, sort of bored, her inflection soaring at the end of every sentence.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Payne’s inflections shined the most on ballads like these, where there was nothing but vocals and guitars.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
• Bob has gone through many vocal inflections, and Dylan fans have come up with clever nicknames for many of them.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
• So, is there a chance that a member of the royal family could have a stateside inflection?
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 7 May 2019
• Robert Norman has all the tics of Spock — the tilt of the head, the flat inflection when speaking.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
• These inflection points tend to occur not when one shocking event arrives, but when such events pile up, one on top of the other.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• However, the latest and biggest inflection on the market is due to the avian flu.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
• There was something so familiar in the inflection of certain words.
  — Gaia Alari, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
• What remains uncertain is whether that inflection will be as sharp as the market expects.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 June 2026