How to Use influence in a Sentence

influence

1 of 2 noun

• Her parents still have a great deal of influence over her.
• Her parents are concerned that her new friends may have a bad influence on her.
• She has remained under the influence of her parents.
• His health problems may have had some influence on his decision.
• He used his influence to reform the company's policies.
• Recent years have seen a decline in the company's influence within the industry.
• Her ideas have gradually gained influence in the company.
• The chairman wields considerable influence over the board's decisions.
• She claims that her personal problems played no influence upon her decision to resign.
• Emily Dickinson has had a major influence on his poetry.
• The Gotham are just the start of a busy week that has a great influence on the Oscar race.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
• One thing that doesn’t come up very much in the book is Roth’s influence.
  — Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
• Still, the Me 262 was a major influence on what was to come.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2021
• The Stalker gag is all the more salty as Tarkovsky’s influence is strong.
  — Yasmine Seale, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The whole point is to remove state influence and turn it over to the people.
  — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Jacobs is a great influence to a team that is jelling at the right time.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2021
• Below is a great look at the influence of Chase in the Bengals’ run game.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• Sanders’s campaign is making this about the influence of the wealthy.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 20 Aug. 2019
• In many ways, his influence would loom large after his son took the reins.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2018
• Her work looked at the climate influences of streamflow on the Upper Gila, the Salt and the Verde rivers.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• The influence of Asian culture and martial arts has been huge in your work.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
• In this episode, Jeff and Jonathan discuss the influence of weather on plant growth.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• The point, then, isn’t to discount breed’s influence over dogs, but to rethink its sway over us.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• But yeah, he Dario laid out some of the risks that are inherent in the growing influence of A.I.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• There is a big rumba influence on it, with this baile funk rhythm.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2022
• There was something about him that was a big influence.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• Google wields heavy influence over the parts of our lives embedded on our phones.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• Be a calm, serene influence on someone who is jumpy or stressed.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2020
• Gulf countries, too, will use the conflict to vie for influence.
  — Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
• Lloyd, in his estimation, would be able to do the job well and free from influence.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2020

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influence

2 of 2 verb

• No one knows how this decision will influence the outcome of the election.
• I was deeply influenced by my parents.
• She claims that her decision to resign was not influenced by her personal problems.
• He's accused of illegally attempting to influence the jury.
• So, the score was influenced by the party feel as well.
  — Monique Newman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023
• Do parents have a lot of room to influence who their kids will turn out to be?
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
• The college choice of one figured to influence the pick of the other.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2022
• How did falling short of the Final Four the past two years influence his choice?
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2022
• This was one of the things that really influenced him to want to be in music and sing.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• The idea is to let voters know who is trying to influence them.
  — Jaclyn Gallucci, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
• That influences how Chris Mack and his staff can fill in their roster.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 10 July 2018
• Because of new media, we’re all influenced by the same things.
  — Melissa Magsaysay, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Mickey favors a lucky coin piece while I am influenced by a ring and bracelet.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• The president has long refused to curb the arms flow to influence Israel’s approach to the war.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• How did a painting of a court scene from more than three centuries ago influence you?
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• Most people live in safe seats, and the time to influence who appears on the ballot is mostly passed.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• How did living in two of the largest cities in the country influence your songwriting?
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 21 July 2022
• The media has the power to influence how people respond to things.
  — Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
• Design is sure to influence the outcome of this year's race as well.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Youngkin has two real paths to influence TJ, Kelsey said.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021
• Who among the class, though, can claim to have influenced greatness so far and remarkably wide?
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• His biggest goal is to influence the Black culinary world and teach those who look just like him.
  — Alexandria Jack, Chron, 17 Feb. 2023
• After all, the state of our homes can directly influence the state of our minds.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 24 July 2020
• Progressive efforts to influence and pack the court may in the end destroy it.
  — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• Should that first mask slip, what’s stopping any of us from being influenced by the chaos around us to become killers?
  — Paige S. Allen, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Oct. 2017
• Did that influence your decision to start a skin-care line?
  — Max Berlinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Design tends to reflect the values of those who influence it.
  — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 26 May 2022
• How did growing up there influence your voice and point of view as a writer, later in life?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• On the walls are depicted lots of postcards of great works of art by painters that influenced my father.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Who is a creative person (not a writer) who has influenced you and your work?
  — John Williams, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024