Example sentences for: infer

How can you use “infer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Based on their comment to Bayoumi about the first apartment being expensive, one might infer that they wanted to save money.

  • The idea is that the use of a test or scale presupposes that one can indirectly infer a person's position on a latent trait from his/her responses to a set of well-chosen items.

  • After five years or more of such exercise, even if the individual cannot recall the difference between imply and infer , at least it is likely that whenever a choice is encountered a small bell will ring somewhere in the recesses of his mind, recalling a long-forgotten paper for which the grade might have been reduced because of a failure to know the difference.

  • When you are introduced to some-body's “co-brother,” you infer that he is the gentleman's wife's sister's husband.

  • Because they cannot be easily cultured apart outside of the host for traditional genetic or physiological techniques, analysis of genome sequence offers a valuable tool to infer metabolic functions that endosymbionts have retained and lost and to elucidate the steps in the evolutionary processes of genome reduction.


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