How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

verb

• How should we interpret the law?
• We need someone to interpret these results for us.
• I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
• Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
• Freud knew how to interpret dreams.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
• There’s a lot left to interpret.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
• The dramatists get to interpret the idea of hope in their own way.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2020
• That leaves the courts to interpret what is already on the books.
  — Sam Whitehead and Julie Appleby, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• School districts will interpret and act on this new set of rules.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2022
• It cannot even be interpreted like that.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Glenn didn’t mean that quote in the way that it’s been interpreted and passed around.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• That’s one way to interpret comments like those.
  — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• Most people hit that fear zone and interpret it as a signal to stop.
  — Paul Deraval, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• There are two ways of interpreting this.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
• This is interpreted as a lack of respect for their hard work.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
  — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
• The great joy is in interpreting it on so many levels.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
• At least not now, not how our laws are written and have been interpreted.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• There’s no other way to interpret that.
  — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
• Both were very easy to interpret and operate, even while on the move.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2021
• But what if what Melville meant was more akin to how Guo interprets it?
  — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
• What is the best way to interpret news reports about preprints?
  — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
• Doctors and lawyers have no idea how to interpret that wording.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• This seems like a great leap, but it was interpreted that way and has since become lore.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
• Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
• Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive.com, 21 July 2019
• The agency says the tests should be easy enough for a lay person to use and interpret at home.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• Who interprets this for each function?
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Take the time to interpret them, and valuable messages emerge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2020