inclining

Example Sentences

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Humidity, as we hear so often, helps determine our happiness, placing spring in our step, or inclining us toward indolence.

From Washington Post

Bushnell’s working theory is that the constant pain of sickle cell disease has permanently altered the circuitry somewhere in Samuels’s brain, inclining her toward chronic pain, even though she is in remission.

From Washington Post

This otherwise noble capital inclining its palate to devotees of porridge and boiled mutton was never a thing to celebrate.

From New York Times

By forever inclining toward his partners in conversation, this Murdoch embodiment looks poised for verbal seduction — or just possibly assault.

From New York Times

The rig pitched to the south, away from the beach, her derrick cutting obliquely across the sky and her helipad inclining at an angle that to the human eye read as almost apologetic.

From The Guardian