INCLINATION in a Sentence

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239 example sentences for INCLINATION, such as:

1. My natural inclination was to say no.
2. I only write when I feel inclined to.
3. Nobody felt inclined to argue with Smith.
4. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined.
5. He was a loner by nature and by inclination.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCLINATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inclination
 n.  preference; tendency; inclined surface; slope
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So unnerved was he at the sight that he leaned up against the wall with his hand to his throat to stifle his inclination to call out.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  He was small and very plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
3  Few of these were attached to him from inclination, and none from personal regard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  The prisoners were compelled by their guards to alight, and were conducted to an apartment where a hasty repast was offered them, of which none but Athelstane felt any inclination to partake.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  The Lady Rowena was next separated from her train, and conducted, with courtesy, indeed, but still without consulting her inclination, to a distant apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Cedric, with some difficulty, compelled himself to make obeisance to the haughty Baron, who returned his courtesy with a slight inclination of the head.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  The same courtesy was offered to Ivanhoe, who pledged his father in silence, supplying the usual speech by an inclination of his head, lest his voice should have been recognised.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  No objection was made, but for some time there seemed no inclination to move in any plan, or to any distance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  They could not get through; and as Miss Bertram's inclination for so doing did by no means lessen, it ended in Mr. Rushworth's declaring outright that he would go and fetch the key.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  It is fortunate that your inclination and your father's convenience should accord so well.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  She said little, assented only here and there, and betrayed no inclination either of appropriating any part of the compliment to herself, or of strengthening his views in favour of Northamptonshire.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Shortly afterward, Sir Thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination, by advising her to go immediately to bed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  But I have not the least inclination to go near her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  She's troubled by her son's inclination toward atheism.
2  I have little inclination to listen to you all evening.
3  My natural inclination was to say no.
4  My natural inclination is to find a compromise.
5  He was a loner by nature and by inclination.
6  She had neither the time nor the inclination to help them.
7  I have the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose.
8  I feel more inclination to put you in the way of keeping yourself, and shall endeavor to do so; but observe, my sphere is narrow.
9  Arthur has some strange ideas, but on this occasion I'm inclined to agree with him.
10  Nobody felt inclined to argue with Smith.
11  As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined.
12  I only write when I feel inclined to.
13  The accident inclined him to reconsider his career.
14  He inclined towards the speaker to hear more clearly.
15  He inclined forward so as to hear more clearly.