[ UK /ɪnspˈɛkt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈspɛkt/ ]
VERB
  1. look over carefully
    Please inspect your father's will carefully
  2. come to see in an official or professional capacity
    The governor visited the prison
    The grant administrator visited the laboratory
  3. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
    audit accounts and tax returns
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How To Use inspect In A Sentence

  • You can't help thinking that the promise of that final inspection adds a little extra sparkle to the finished product. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.” Archive 2008-10-01
  • You can do a lot of that from our facility, but eventually a mobile system to inspect parts on wing is where we are going to be positioned.
  • The effect would be a level of military involvement that would serve to collapse the distinction between inspection and invasion/occupation.
  • More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
  • Mrs King is being supported by her husband Simon, a police inspector with Wiltshire Constabulary, who is also a seasoned runner.
  • While he was chief inspector of schools parents could be sure that they had a powerful champion of high standards.
  • General Pershing inspected and reviewed the 42nd Division on March 16.
  • On closer inspection a radiologist's report confirmed an impacted fracture, but the report never reached Dr Blakeley.
  • Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent.
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