inflection

How To Use inflection In A Sentence

• But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
• Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
• The fluidity of Polish syntax, due to inflection, makes possible a highly complex structure which, some Polish critics suspect, prevented Sep from attaining a wide readership in his time: he was too difficult.
• The christological inflection of the triune name is the familiar formula ‘the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.’
• Earlier Aronhold had worked on plane curves and the problem of the nine points of inflection of the third order plane curve which had been discussed by Plücker some time before.
• Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.
• But here we encounter another paradox that suggests we are indeed at a critical inflection point for policy and for markets.
• He seems to have picked up a certain Southern inflection in his voice that I hadn't noticed before. Waldo Jaquith
• Furthermore, appealing to the use of a word may capture its direct meaning but leave untouched meanings that manifest themselves in the tone or inflection with which the word is used.
• Noun gender is an example of a more general phenomenon, that of inflection classes.