How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

verb

• How should we interpret the law?
• We need someone to interpret these results for us.
• I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
• Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
• That leaves the courts to interpret what is already on the books.
  — Sam Whitehead and Julie Appleby, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• The dramatists get to interpret the idea of hope in their own way.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2020
• There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• The agency says the tests should be easy enough for a lay person to use and interpret at home.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• The ultimate goal is to interpret the word of God in a way that changes lives.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
• For those who can interpret them, the bones speak for the dead and educate the living.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
• There are many ways to interpret that data, and one of them is this: Streep has lost 25 times.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Vow, viewers might interpret, is filling in the gaps.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2020
• Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
  — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
• Ratings are one of the best ways to interpret the Trump psyche.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• That's partly due to the change in light when the moon blocks the sun, but also the way our eyes and brain adjust to and interpret that change.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• Take the time to interpret them, and valuable messages emerge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2020
• Gandhi said that part of the law hasn’t been interpreted by the board before.
  — Melissa Daniels, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
• From that standpoint, that is the way the public is interpreting it.
  — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Both were very easy to interpret and operate, even while on the move.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2021
• What is the best way to interpret news reports about preprints?
  — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
• School districts will interpret and act on this new set of rules.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2022
• This seems like a great leap, but it was interpreted that way and has since become lore.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
• There is a lot of vague language in the law, and uncertainty about how to interpret the rules.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Having Dave interpret one of our songs is success to me!
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• This is interpreted as a lack of respect for their hard work.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Those who don't know me and have never met me might interpret that as being closed off.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• Those who don’t know me and have never met me might interpret that as being closed off.
  — refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Take a look at some of the many ways nail artists are interpreting tortoiseshell.
  — Condé Nast, Allure, 16 Aug. 2019
• We are supposed to be able to interpret our stories, right?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 22 June 2018

Last Updated: 7 May 2024