How to Use induce in a Sentence

induce

verb

• No one knows what induced him to leave.
• The advertisement is meant to induce people to eat more fruit.
• Her illness was induced by overwork.
• They will induce labor to avoid complications.
• Thompson Pass, on the way to Valdez, has the same set-up to induce slides.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2023
• Chan induced two popouts on two pitches to get out of the jam.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2023
• Now Biden can try to appeal to them and induce a nice back-and-forth.
  — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• The rules state that NIL isn’t supposed to be used to induce recruits to come to a school.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 9 June 2022
• However, William Bush came in and induced Will Spivey to pop out to end the game.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• The team then used a laser to induce a small burn on the abdominal wall.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2021
• On Tuesday, the yield fell by the most in a day since the turmoil induced by the banking crisis in March.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Finding a spot out of the way, whether in your garage or in your apartment, can induce all kinds of headaches.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• Combine this with a stretch that will induce a feeling of calm.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021
• What if there were a pill that would instead induce that kind of calm breathing for you?
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Vans and Sandy Liang are back to induce more nostalgia in 2022.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• This time, a fastball at the top of the strike zone induced an inning-ending flyout.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2023
• The risk of being set apart might induce you to tone yourself down today.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
• Yet the move could induce other streamers—and small studios—to strike their own deals to not be left out.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 26 May 2021
• For now, efforts to make sense of the likelihood of war are likely to induce whiplash.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
• Much of the benefit can likely be explained by weight loss induced by the drug.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
• Just the thought of filling up the gas tank at $6 a gallon can induce anxiety.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2022
• Without a push, a cat would have no leverage, nothing to induce it to turn right side up.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• That’s in contrast to many of the new vaccines that induce human cells to make the viral proteins.
  — Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Try this standing side stretch to open yourself up and induce feelings of calm.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021
• If nothing changed in a few hours, she would be given medicine to induce labor.
  — Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Any spot on your body that induces arousal can be paired to create a blended orgasm.
  — Amanda Chatel, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2025
• The action is nonstop, the ultra-vivid colors jump from the screen, the tonal shifts induce whiplash, and the soundtrack will fry your speakers.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Tough love might induce the migrants to stay home and fight to clean up their corrupt governments.
  — WSJ, 20 Sep. 2021
• The story takes place in what seems to be the 1920s, among folks for whom free love is the order of the day, even when inducing fainting, fits of screaming and accidental death.
  — Lisa Brown, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• Trump’s tariffs aim to induce car companies to manufacture in the United States.
  — Christopher S. Tang, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025