INFER in a Sentence

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66 example sentences for INFER, such as:

1. I inferred this fact from the evidence I have gathered.
2. It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
3. The value of data depends on our skill in drawing inferences from it.
4. You seemed to know about this book, and by inference I thought you had read it.
5. He can logically infer that if the battery is dead then the horn will not sound.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
infer
 v.  deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  To believe that the letter was not the result of some momentary pique, to infer that she really gave him up to Thomasin, would have required previous knowledge of her transfiguration by that man's influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
3  You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
4  That they belong to a woman I infer from their delicacy, and also, of course, from the last words of the dying man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
5  It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
6  On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  Then I told him all I knew, and how I knew it; with the one reservation that I left him to infer that I knew from Miss Havisham what I in fact knew from Wemmick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
8  I was glad to infer, from these slight premises, that Mr. Micawber was doing well; and consequently was much surprised to receive, about this time, the following letter from his amiable wife.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
9  Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that any clue had been obtained, for a moment, to Emily's fate.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
10  From this, Charles and Melanie could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, the only excitement in her sheltered life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Such being my conjectures, any one acquainted with the appearance of New Bedford may very readily infer how palpably I must have seen my mistake.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  You see, you must not infer, from what I have told you, that Alfred is what is called a hard master; for he isn't.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The qualitative analysis gives a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  He had given me some reason to infer that it was his impatience of comparative poverty that drove him out there.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
15  I caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too distinctly to infer the main subject discussed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
2  It is possible to infer two completely opposite conclusions from this set of facts.
3  He can logically infer that if the battery is dead then the horn will not sound.
4  From the students' glazed looks, it was easy for me to infer that they were bored out of their minds.
5  If he is guilty, then by inference so is she; both should be in trouble.
6  You seemed to know about this book, and by inference I thought you had read it.
7  I inferred this fact from the evidence I have gathered.
8  The value of data depends on our skill in drawing inferences from it.
9  In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.
10  In the former, the researcher can draw very strong inferences from comparisons between randomized groups.
11  After all, people with a naturalistic worldview make philosophical inferences about the world supposedly based on the scientific evidence.