Sentences with infer
in·fer
I i - I inferred from what she said that you have not been well. [VERB that]
- The police inferred that they found her behaviour rather suspicious. [VERB that]
- And how those forces result in the stress distribution we can infer from known earthquakes.
- We infer that there must be some relationship between species that appear similar and we classify them accordingly under a system invented.
- They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- Your Honour should not readily infer these customers.
- In novels, other characters are wooed by wonderful minds, and infer beauty from what's within.
- The use of infer to mean imply is becoming more and more common in both speech and writing. There is nevertheless a useful distinction between the two which many people would be in favour of maintaining. To infer means 'to deduce', and is used in the construction to infer something from something: I inferred from what she said that she had not been well. To imply (sense 1) means 'to suggest, to insinuate' and is normally followed by a clause: are you implying that I was responsible for the mistake?