How to Use inverse in a Sentence

inverse

1 of 2 adjective

• Addition and subtraction are inverse operations.
• The song dramatizes teen-age self-doubt and has the inverse effect of a pep talk.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• In a twisted, inverse way, sitting in the dark last month drove that point home.
  — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Waivers are awarded based on the inverse order of record.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Bill Veeck always said that the fans’ knowledge of baseball is inverse to the price of the ticket.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• In fact, the quality of the speech is often in inverse proportion to the celebrity of the speaker.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• But in four dimensions, the field strength follows an inverse cube law.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• In most cases, inverse psoriasis takes the form of a red shiny, smooth rash.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Health.com, 27 June 2019
• The inverse bond-equity link has been so strong for so long that investors tend to take it for granted.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• The team was surprised to find that the relationship between species richness and the rate at which new species arose was inverse.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
• But for me, the pandemic had a strangely inverse effect.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2021
• My own panic has risen in inverse proportion to our staffing.
  — John Wenzel, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• And my mother was in the inverse position: stuck at home, a little bit trapped by my father, with three kids.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 2 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
• After three games worth of round-robin scheduling in each zone, the four teams would be seeded and pitted against the inverse seed from the other zone.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2020
• The dryness increases in inverse proportion to the amount of vermouth.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• There’s something close to an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern across the June through September lows, as well.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The sound is massive, but the production remains clean, with inverse drops that play like the reflection of fire on metal.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
• Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at lower spots earning the least.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
• This is done for the first three picks, and picks 4-14 are determined by inverse order of regular season record.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2018
• The two species of conflagration are inverse images of each other.
  — Mike Davis Was Right, Curbed, 26 Oct. 2022
• In an inverse example from earlier this year, a bald eagle winged its way to Japan.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2021
• The longevity of a bar in New York can almost always be tracked in inverse proportion to its snobbishness.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• In fact, there was an inverse relationship between the need for therapy and what has been given over more than a decade.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• According to Copeland, Dalio’s devotion to the Principles seemed to grow in inverse proportion to the success of his funds.
  — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• The advent of peace in Northern Ireland had an odd, inverse effect on politics there.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2020
• The strong performance of the US dollar, which tends to have an inverse relationship with bitcoin, is one culprit.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 4 June 2023
• This is the inverse aspect of high capital returns.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• As the distance from the source rises, the light intensity drops (that's the inverse part) but at a much faster rate.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2025
• The chart above is showing you that the stock is now emerging from an inverse head and shoulders.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025

inverse

2 of 2 noun

• Of course, the inverse is true: The price of Chiliz can increase.
  — Alex Webb, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• So if that is the DNA of act one, then act two should be the inverse.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
• Simple math tells you that’s the inverse of the Red Sox.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• For those who have had to take on second jobs, the inverse is true.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2021
• In the past, the prices of stocks and bonds had an inverse relationship.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2022
• The dark gray base paired with classic white pinstripes is the inverse of the team's usual home set.
  — Analis Bailey, USA TODAY, 28 May 2021
• This expression has the ratio of h/s, which is just the inverse of the glide ratio.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• Yeah, this is, like, the inverse of each other, these two numbers.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• This strategy works as an inverse to the bullish call spread.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• The inverse of leaving the past behind is going home again.
  — Steffie Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Not striking risks the inverse, as a movement shrinks to contract size.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• The inverse of that success though meant the defense conceded chunks of yardage.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• The same sentiment applies to the inverse, stark failure in the NBA Finals.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
• The inverse of a fingernail. d. One who keeps praying in their body, beneath the vaulted dome, deep in the fog.
  — Ilana Luna, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• If the romance sets up the potential for some of the franchise’s biggest scares, then the inverse is also true.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• The second jury was the inverse of the first, deadlocked ten to two in favor of conviction.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Although the resurgent chatter may suggest new clues or proof, the inverse is in fact true.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Biden, at this point, is inverse of this with an approval rating in the mid 50s and a disapproval rating in the low 40s.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 6 June 2021
• The earnings yield, the inverse of the CAPE, was an exceptionally slight 2.7%.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The nightmare inverse of this dream is a reality of war.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023
• But OpenAI has some programs that are the exact inverse.
  — Simon Rich, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
• The interior of the boat is the inverse of its exterior.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
• My path was almost the inverse: more gradual through freestyling.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2022
• This is the inverse of what the Weirs have been experiencing with Lindsay, right?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2021
• There is no good in Sheridan’s world without its inverse nipping at its heels.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 5 Feb. 2023
• El Niño replaces its inverse, La Niña, the cycle's colder stretch.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Every facet of life and governance is presented as the inverse of its lived reality.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
• Students dropped off by their parents would go from walking downhill to reach the campus to walking uphill, and the inverse is true for kids dropped off by bus.
  — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• The inverse is now true as well.
  — Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
• The new food pyramid is an inverse of previous versions, with grains at the bottom and protein at the top.
  — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026