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 Monk and the Gun is best interpreted in that context.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 27 July 2024
• 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
• Many of the night's guests chose to interpret the night's theme (which was a tribute to Lagerfeld's life and work) by paying homage to Choupette.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• 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
• The new Maps tools are powered by Google Gemini, the company’s large language model that can interpret and respond to text, as well as parse through and generate other media like images, video, and code.
  — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2024
• Yet interpreting how the budget has landed will take time as economists and businesses assess the impact of Reeves’ announcements.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024