I rather incline to think that I said 'I am a murderer;' for I believed her to be as good as dead at the time, and I certainly thought I had killed her.
The best thing that could happen for him would be her death, then they might incline to believe his statement, and a clever counsel might get him off with a few months' imprisonment.
David desired, that his heart might not incline to covetousness, but to the testimonies of his God.
I beseech God to incline the hearts of my readers to weigh these things.
The concession of this share may come before 1907--I incline to think it will--or it may come somewhat later.
Both the tone and the situations in the first acts, incline greatly, as Voltaire observes, to comedy.
A house standing on an incline is likely to be better drained than one standing upon the summit of a hill, or on a level below a hill.
Put into a stewpan a ladleful of melted bacon or lard; set it on a stove; put in about a dozen of the small pieces of bacon, then incline the stewpan and break in an egg.
It being very warm, the dews and rains incline the fruit to decay.
Should they incline to crack open from too rapid growth, raise them a little, and push them down again; this will break some roots, and so loosen the remainder that the growth will be checked and the heads saved.
Seeds raised from stumps, from which the head has been removed for use, will incline the leaves to grow down, as we often see, instead of closing up into heads.
If allowed to grow as fast as they will incline to, on alluvial soils, when they are exposed to severe winters, they will disappoint growers.
It is said that a little sweetened water or honey, applied to the inside of the hive, will incline the bees to remain.
These characters influenced me to incline toward a somewhat bombastic system of gesticulation and a turgid delivery.
My temperament caused me toincline greatly toward the tender and the gentle.
But the violet, by the mixture of the white Light of the Clouds, will appear faint and incline to purple.
The musketeer still preserved the hope of reaching Nantes quickly, and of pleading the cause of his friends eloquently enough to incline the king to mercy.
All the contracts in the world are easily violated because the interests included in them incline more to one side than to another.
At the next, nothing was to be seen from the whaler save an incline of green water and a canopy of dark-grey sky.
The incline became so great that he had to grasp the door-lever for support.
Intelligible animals do not incline towards the sense-world, vi.
Animals whose actions are free incline sometimes towards good, sometimes towards evil (as the two horses in Plato's Phaedrus).
For the soul to incline towards the body is for the soul to shed light on what is below her; and this is no more sinful than to produce a shadow.
I incline to imagine there will be a steel prow with a cutting edge at either end of the sort of aerostat I foresee, and conceivably this aerial ram will be the most important weapon of the affair.
If one has regard only to its extension during the nineteenth century one may easily incline to overrate the probabilities of English becoming the chief of these.
While occupation and skill incline one towards severity and economy, leisure and unlimited means involve relaxation and demand the adventitious interest of decoration.
This pitch of development reached, I incline to anticipate daily papers much more like the Spectator in form than these present mainsails of our public life.
Throwing out his hands wildly he plunged downward, struck an incline and rolled over and over, finally coming to a jolting stop on hard earth, on his hands and knees.
His groping hands informed him that the incline he had rolled down was a rude stairway.
There are principles innate to men, which ever have, and ever will incline them to this offence.
Doth not," saith this kind of slanderer, "his temper incline him to do thus?
I incline to think is the passage Bacon had in his mind.
I rather incline to think it is the case, for I have had occasion lately to compare two editions of Paley's Horæ Paulinæ, and I find great differences in the text.
The incline was the same down which d'Urberville had driven her so wildly on that day in June.
From the western gate aforesaid the highway, as every Wintoncestrian knows, ascends a long and regular incline of the exact length of a measured mile, leaving the houses gradually behind.
Thus they reached the verge of an incline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile.
I inclineto think that after a short stay at Capernaum, He went with the Galilean company up to the Passover.
I incline to think that our Lord was attended by Philip, who alone, at that time, had received the order "Follow Me.
I incline to the old view which identified this feast with the feast of Tabernacles; the time suits well with my chronological scheme.
They cuddled up under a tarpaulin sheet and settled down for the night, when someone gave the wagon a shove and starting down an incline on the unballasted track it proceeded merrily on its way to Ynyslas.
But his reticence made her incline much more to that idea.
Not at all, and I incline to think there may be nothing: the mind was quite confused.
We drank of its waters at the spot where it had its birth, and then, following a marked track to the south-east, we continued our descent on a gentle incline along a grassy valley.
The incline being extremely steep, we took long strides on the snow.
On the steep inclineof snow two coolies, with their respective loads, having lost their footing, were sliding at an incredible speed.
At one moment there seemed to be black ghosts springing out from everywhere, only, more solid than ghosts, they made a loud noise with their heavy boots as they ran in confusion down the steep incline and through the gorge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
