INSPECT in a Sentence

Learn INSPECT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

110 example sentences for INSPECT, such as:

1. Please inspect your father's letter carefully.
2. Elaine went outside to inspect the playing field.
3. Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
4. The customs officer inspected my passport suspiciously.
5. Pray come and inspect my irregularities and futilities.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSPECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inspect
 v.  look over; examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  The waiter had just time to accomplish this feat before Paul Ivanovitch Chichikov set forth to inspect the town.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Pray come and inspect my irregularities and futilities.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  "Sir, I beg of you to inspect my goods," said a tradesman as Chichikov was passing his establishment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  This official, no doubt, will want first of all to inspect your department.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
5  And then, if you wish, we can go from there and inspect the district school and see our method of education.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  They've gone now to inspect the philanthropic institutions.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
7  On the evening of the last day's march an order had been received that the commander-in-chief would inspect the regiment on the march.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
8  Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was particularly disturbed that day, evidently by the fact that they had dared to inspect and criticize his camp in his absence.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER X
9  When Ermolov, having been sent by Kutuzov to inspect the position, told the field marshal that it was impossible to fight there before Moscow and that they must retreat, Kutuzov looked at him in silence.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
10  Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel, came down to inspect the completed work; he personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  When it was all gone, another special meeting was held in the barn for the animals to inspect Frederick's bank-notes.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  Her first care was to inspect the apartment; but it afforded few hopes either of escape or protection.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  We had better inspect the premises first, and examine the servants afterwards.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  Thomasin then, as always, was glad to see Clym, and took him to inspect the sleeping baby, carefully screening the candlelight from the infant's eyes with her hand.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
15  In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more of your young ladies.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Please inspect your father's letter carefully.
2  Before agreeing to reduce American military forces in Europe, the president would stipulate that NATO inspection teams be allowed to inspect Soviet bases.
3  Each party in the case is entitled to inspect the documents held by the other.
4  Elaine went outside to inspect the playing field.
5  The customs officer inspected my passport suspiciously.
6  She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable.
7  He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
8  Boeing said Friday that discovery of a 787 Dreamliner manufacturing defect by wing-maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan means 43 of the jets have to be inspected for small hairline cracks inside the wings.
9  The woman put forward a red silk as well as a blue one for our inspection.
10  Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
11  We will have to involve the authorities before long, but we can assuredly go there first and make our own inspection.
12  The inspection was a follow-on from the review process.
13  Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
14  After an inspection, the inspectors must publish a report.
15  We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.