Sentence examples for infer to from inspiring English sources

When she is sexually violated who do we infer to as "dishonoured"?

Something has happened to him, we infer, to produce this "susceptibility".

At first, we prospered by planning and speculating based on what we knew to be true, or could reasonably and responsibly infer to be true.

In "The Wayward Cloud," Shiang-chyi has returned from Paris (or so we must infer) to a drab apartment building in Taipei.

So, for example, the slippage that allows "infer" to mean "imply" weakens the valuable distinction between a person's drawing a conclusion and an argument's requiring one.

If so many scientists of past generations judged their theories to be successful and, on that basis, concluded that they were true, and if, by current lights, they were all wrong, how can it be supposed that the contemporary situation is different that, when contemporary scientists gesture at apparent successes and infer to the approximate truth of their theories, they are correct?

To imply is to suggest; to infer is to conclude.

Genetic data was used to infer resistance-to-movement.

Beyond that was something my white cane inferred to be an open manhole.

This article was amended on 5 May 2012 to remove an ambiguous phrase that could be inferred to be inconsistent with Guardian editorial guidelines.

They are inferred to have derived from debris avalanches.