inclination - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • accumulate: It depends on someone's accumulated inclinations how deeply he will consider what he hears.
  • resist: However, Caldwell -- clearly a real film ' buff ' -- resists any inclination to spend much time on any of these films.
  • show: New Labor has shown no inclination to grant the kind of tax exemption pension funds demand.
  • feel: The strain reached a point where he felt no inclination to continue with his work.
  • have: Your child may have a natural inclination to be alert late at night.
  • express: Extension beyond the basics as our children develop will depend on their expressed inclination.

Adjective modifier

  • orbital: Cassini will continue to orbit Saturn, investigating the system for at least four years, from a wide range of orbital inclinations.
  • slight: I had absolutely not the slightest inclination of what was going on.
  • natural: Your child may have a natural inclination to be alert late at night.
  • evil: Third, Jesus had no " evil inclination " which he struggled with.
  • artistic: If you have creative or artistic inclinations, your work will blossom.

Modifies a noun

  • angle: I think something similar can be done with inclination angles.

Noun used with modifier

  • degree: An underground stream emits waves of energy vertically to the surface and two ' sidebands ' at 45 degrees inclination.

Possessives

  • people: By such means I supposed, I might temper peoples ' evident inclination to cast aspersions against my heterosexual identity.

Preposition: of

  • axis: The amount of broadening depends on rotation rate and the angle of inclination of the axis of rotation to the line of sight.
  • earth: That is, within a similar plane in the solar system defined by the inclination of the Earth 's orbit.
  • degree: The artwork can be illuminated by two 40 watt bulbs on either side at an inclination of 45 degrees.
  • head: I looked at them without stirring, replying with an inclination of the head to the bows which some of them made me.
  • flesh: Curb your appetite and you will more easily curb every inclination of the flesh.

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