INTERPRET in a Sentence

Learn INTERPRET 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.
111 example sentences for INTERPRET, such as:
1. He interpreted a difficult passage in a book.
2. Different people might interpret events differently.
3. The soldier, pointing at them, interpreted the scene.
4. Her message was interpreted as a warning to the general.
5. He interpreted the departure of the birds as an augury of evil.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INTERPRET
interpret
 v.  give an interpretation or rendition of
 v.  give an interpretation or explanation to
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  Listen, then, to a dream that I have had and interpret it for me if you can.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
2  The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
3  Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
4  "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
5  However, Mr. Fagin seemed to interpret the endeavour as expressing a perfect coincidence with his opinion, and put about the liquor which Barney reappeared with, in a very friendly manner.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  I thought, rather foolishly, that Weena might help me to interpret this, but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  He could scarcely interpret the letters of the signboards of the shops.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  It was one of the most difficult texts in all the Scriptures, he said, to interpret properly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
9  "Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly," said the physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
10  They interpreted the word "making" as May and King.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Nina interpreted the stories about the creche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
12  "Comrade" Lucas was not what is called an educated man; he knew only the Bible, but it was the Bible interpreted by real experience.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
13  Every line that could possibly be interpreted into a secret inclination for war, was carefully avoided; while, on the other hand, he studied those conceits that might be construed into amity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
14  His disordered mind interpreted the hall of the forest as a charnel place.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  The soldier, pointing at them, interpreted the scene.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  Now I feel by imperceptible signs, which I cannot yet interpret but will later, that his defiance is about to thaw.
2  When data is kept under lock and key, as mysterious as a temple secret, only the priests can read and interpret it.
3  The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.
4  He sought to determine the correlation that existed between ability in algebra and ability to interpret reading exercises.
5  Different people might interpret events differently.
6  It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained.
7  I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
8  His action was interpreted as constituting a threat to the community.
9  It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
10  He interpreted a difficult passage in a book.
11  The term 'business' is here interpreted broadly to include all types of organization in the public and private sectors.
12  The whole speech might well be interpreted as a coded message to the Americans.
13  Her message was interpreted as a warning to the general.
14  He interpreted the departure of the birds as an augury of evil.
15  Obama entered politics during Bill Clinton's presidency, when urban liberals were growing disgusted with the president's strategy of “triangulation,” popularly interpreted as the idea that you can win broad support by picking fights with the ideologues in your own party.