Example sentences for: inflection

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

  • Self's cleverest invention is probably the chimps' language: They convey words to each other by signing and touching each other's fur, and they add emotional inflection with grunts like euch-euch (irritable) and hooograa (friendly, inclusive).

  • You could mistake her for an ordinary, unaffected nerd, except that the genius Barrymore timing is in every breath, every screwy inflection, every pratfall.

  • ) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.

  • But Annan is an internationalist with an American inflection.

  • Many languages are inflected, which is also a form of redundancy, since English gets by nicely with little inflection.


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