How to Use infer in a Sentence

infer

verb

• Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
• It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
• It can be inferred that U.S. cities will continue to feel the brunt of the wildfire smoke.
  — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But Sanders inferred that pharma is to blame for poor life expectancy in the U.S. due to the cost of drugs.
  — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Allowing the young group to shy away from the pressure would infer there was a way out.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• Many studies infer that the Spinosaurus waded in waters near the shore for a quick bite to eat.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Both blind and sighted people inferred movement from the start and stop of sounds.
  — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
• These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• So things aren’t quite as bad for Roku as one might infer from Monday’s plunge.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• Behavior is one of the hardest things to infer from the fossil record.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• That’s inferred, not the work of the author, who takes pains to avoid any hint of partisanship.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• The emotional meanings of his work have to be inferred.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2023
• There is a logic to this: Intentions are hard to infer and easy to lie about.
  — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Any such hope, the reader is left to infer, will come from people like the ones living their lives in this book.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
• Once trained, the system could be fed partial data and infer what the rest was likely to be.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
• The research used satellite techniques to infer changes to glacier grounding lines based on changes in the height of the glacier's surface.
  — Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The researchers compared early dog genomes to ancient wolves to infer where the first dogs might have evolved.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2022
• Previous work had to take down the sculpture first and infer from a pile of bricks what the sculpture may have looked like.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
• Astronomers can use that stretch to infer how long the signal has been traveling, and thus, when the first stars flicked on.
  — Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
• MacDonald pleaded guilty to the charge of inferring with a flight crew on March 22.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 May 2024
• Scientists could only infer the number of teeth on many of the gears.
  — Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
• But to infer he wasn’t fully engaged would be a mistake.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 July 2020
• Speaking with the Times, Malone adds this is the first time gastroliths have been used to infer the movements of dinosaurs.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• A timeline for the evolution of the solar system can be inferred.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
• Yet through the weekend, Trump has inferred on Twitter that the conversation is over and Democrats are to blame.
  — Author: Sarah D. Wire, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• Tim Hortons could use the data its app gathered to infer where users lived, worked, and traveled.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Aug. 2022
• There have been some comments recently that were picked up to infer that that Peter’s out and Miles is in.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024
• What average consumers should infer from all of this: 5G isn’t quite ready for prime time.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 4 Dec. 2019
• Instead researchers infer their existence from imaging techniques that rely on the way seismic waves travel through them.
  — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• Instead of companies inferring information about users from messy data trails, users are telling them their secrets outright.
  — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024