How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

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  • I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
  • Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
  • The Monk and the Gun is best interpreted in that context.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 27 July 2024
  • Instead, they are required to have enough staff to meet residents' needs, and interpret what that means.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • The Constitution is no better than the Court that interprets it.
    — Kermit Roosevelt Iii, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • Many people interpreted Charlie’s statement to mean that his mother was dead.
    — Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • That speaks volumes about how the American people are interpreting this.
    — ABC News, 2 June 2024
  • Both of these outcomes can also be supported by competing rules guiding how statutes should be interpreted.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 14 June 2024
  • Shi also notes that interpreting data from their device still requires a high level of expertise.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2024
  • However, my now-brother-in-law’s girlfriend interpreted this as a personal slight.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Hernández stared at McMichael and jerked his thumb in the air, which was interpreted as the first (and last) ejection of a seventh-inning stretch singer.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • Parents have also said that knowing of the assaults might have helped in interpreting any depression or other behavior signs in their children.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
  • The case was a test of the reach of a federal agency to enact and interpret regulations — a major theme in the current Supreme Court term.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • That leaves the courts to interpret what is already on the books.
    — Sam Whitehead and Julie Appleby, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The dramatists get to interpret the idea of hope in their own way.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • The agency says the tests should be easy enough for a lay person to use and interpret at home.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The ultimate goal is to interpret the word of God in a way that changes lives.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • For those who can interpret them, the bones speak for the dead and educate the living.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Yet my lawyer assures me the law could interpret 13 years in many ways.
    — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • There are many ways to interpret that data, and one of them is this: Streep has lost 25 times.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Vow, viewers might interpret, is filling in the gaps.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Ratings are one of the best ways to interpret the Trump psyche.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
  • That's partly due to the change in light when the moon blocks the sun, but also the way our eyes and brain adjust to and interpret that change.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Take the time to interpret them, and valuable messages emerge.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2020
  • Gandhi said that part of the law hasn’t been interpreted by the board before.
    — Melissa Daniels, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
  • From that standpoint, that is the way the public is interpreting it.
    — Mark Maske, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Both were very easy to interpret and operate, even while on the move.
    — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2021
  • What is the best way to interpret news reports about preprints?
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020

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