How to Use inversion in a Sentence

inversion

noun
  • Inversion of the two words changes the meaning of the sentence.
  • With its twists, high speeds, dips, corkscrews and inversions, the ride won't be for the timid.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, AL.com, 21 July 2017
  • The steep drops don’t seem to affect me like the inversions do.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The inversion of the yield curve also could hurt banks.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
  • As the wildfires burned on, and nights grew longer and colder, the inversions grew stronger.
    Nora Saks, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • One of those flips, a corkscrew at 197 feet above the ground, sets a world record for highest inversion.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • That’s kind of a wild inversion of what our values are and what our track record is.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The financial world has been atwitter about the inversion of the yield curve.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • More than a year of inversion in the yield curve between 2-year and 10-year Treasurys.
    Karen Langley, WSJ, 25 July 2023
  • For many Southerners, the arrival of Etheridge and his men was the inversion of that sight.
    New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Wrath of Rakshasa will be the steepest dive coaster in the world with the most inversions of any ride of its kind.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • If the launch speed wasn’t enough, Maxx Force has the world’s fastest inversion as passengers flip in the air at 60 mph.
    Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Cardinals been an inversion of the Chiefs through the season thus far.
    Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
  • There was a strong capping inversion in place — a layer of warm air in place about a mile above the ground.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • The cold air mass is shallow, with an inversion height around 7000' msl.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Last week, the inversion on yields reached its widest level since the early 1980s.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The good news is that a winter storm is expected to break up the inversion next week.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In May and June, cool, moist air gets trapped below that inversion.
    Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • The inversion should start on Tuesday and hang around for most of the week, until Jan. 11, Colin said.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The inversion—which last reached these levels a decade ago—has caught traders and investors off guard.
    Sebastian Pellejero, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In a canny act of inversion, we, the ones watching, are winked at and ogled alongside her.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The storm will scour out the inversion and pollution in Utah’s valleys.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And there’s a fascinating inversion of the film-noir trope of the femme fatale.
    Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
  • This inversion is a key signal that a downturn may be on its way.
    Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 July 2019
  • But in the wind’s place has come an inversion that has trapped a thick layer of smoke over much of Douglas County.
    oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2020
  • An inversion is when cold air is held close to the ground by a layer of warm air.
    David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The longer the inversion lasts, the more concentrated and stinkier the air becomes.
    Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That’s the inversion that should bother all of us.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • In any system that claims to value the rule of law, this inversion would raise alarms.
    Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
  • What struck me in that Kyoto workshop was the inversion of this logic.
    Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026

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