How to Use interpret in a Sentence

interpret

verb
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  • How should we interpret the law?
  • We need someone to interpret these results for us.
  • I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.
  • Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Blue light is the lightwave that our eyes interpret as the color blue.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • For those who can interpret them, the bones speak for the dead and educate the living.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • What is the best way to interpret news reports about preprints?
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
  • School districts will interpret and act on this new set of rules.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Take the time to interpret them, and valuable messages emerge.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2020
  • The ultimate goal is to interpret the word of God in a way that changes lives.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Ratings are one of the best ways to interpret the Trump psyche.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Aug. 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
  • Take a look at some of the many ways nail artists are interpreting tortoiseshell.
    — Condé Nast, Allure, 16 Aug. 2019
  • There is also a lot of leeway in how to interpret the stated rules.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Doctors and lawyers have no idea how to interpret that wording.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That means a lot of people are going to interpret it strictly through that lens.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There are dozens of ways to interpret election results.
    — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2020
  • We are supposed to be able to interpret our stories, right?
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • Losey says there are other ways to interpret the massive swarm as well.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
  • This seems like a great leap, but it was interpreted that way and has since become lore.
    — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The body politic should not be charged with writing and interpreting the rules by which they are governed.
    — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2018
  • Numbers would be much easier to read and interpret at a glance.
    — Beth Nichols, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Those who don’t know me and have never met me might interpret that as being closed off.
    — refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Those who don't know me and have never met me might interpret that as being closed off.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021

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