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Example sentences for inspired
Inspired by a seesaw, he devised a swinging lever that tightened the mainspring as it moved.
It may be conceived of as divinely inspired or as a human attribution.
Listen to an elephant orchestra's rhythmic sounds and see the video that inspired our article.
Exactly how dinosaurs got it on has inspired no small amount of speculation.
Other coaches inspired their charges to be great basketball players.
The adhesive is inspired by geckos' feet, which allow the reptiles to walk along the ceiling and up and down smooth walls.
You've weathered well, have had a great career and inspired countless budding writers and students to put pen to paper.
She became inspired as she sometimes did in the presence of the children in school.
Yet unlike much other plastic surgery it is no vanity-inspired whim.
But he also inspired several groups of experimenters to try to make the stuff.
And it has inspired people to great works of art, architecture and literature.
The father of evolution would be thrilled to see the science his theory has inspired.
The burst of hawthorn in a hedgerow or frost on a ploughed field have inspired many of its best painters and poets.
It's an extraordinary material and it was inspired by the lips of a flesh-eating plant.
Suburbia was a dream inspired by revulsion to city life.
Experiment inspired by a paradox tempts a bead uphill.
The idea that mating behavior might have something to do with sauropod anatomy was inspired by giraffes.
People are inspired by the monarch's annual migrations of continental proportions.
There is even a trend toward abstraction, particularly in landscapes inspired by the blur of scenery glimpsed from a moving train.
Photographs often are inspired as much by other photographs as by what they picture.
He was inspired by fossils of armadillos and sloths.
Their presence inspired his gracious and seductive music.
Our collection runs the gamut from useful gifts for the diehard backpacker, to delicate, globally inspired jewelry.
They had people inspired, then let them down, not a good idea.
Neither of his parents went to college, and his chemistry set inspired him to pursue a science career.
Welcome autumn with decorative touches inspired by the bounty of the season.
We as a race have done incredible things when rightly inspired.
As presented in the exhibition, he comes across instead as an inspired poet.
Among his own people, he inspired both pride and fear.
These accounts, written before space travel was possible, have inspired generations of space scientists and explorers.
Animals have inspired countless people to study biology.
But he was more often inspired by the sense of freedom and possibility he found on the open road.
The urge for old-fashioned, satisfying meat has inspired some meat-lovers to take matters into their own hands.
For an easy-to-make adhesive inspired by mussels, possible applications abound.
Where his uppity energy once inspired the country's voters, today it seems merely to annoy.
The wall colors encircling the garden's amphitheater also were inspired by the site.
Cage also inspired him to use games of chance to help set the order of his dances.
String theory has recently inspired a fresh approach.
The gecko's amazing sticky toes inspired scientists to invent a wall-climbing robot.
It's a question that's inspired a surprisingly bruising debate.
Its influence and culture had spread across the land, and it had inspired fear among its enemies.
When he began incorporating feathers into the sculptures, he was inspired to paint on them.
Some locals say that the protests are a rebellion inspired by the leaders of illegal businesses against the rule of law.
On the battlefield they inspired terror, harvesting heads and glory with their swords.
Many have speculated about which real-life animals inspired the first legends.
Distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself, morally inspired and inherently right.
Many people are inspired by science and dream of becoming astronauts.
Our faculty also are united and inspired by the opportunity to build curricula, programs, and the college itself.
Only the inspired would want to engage you in discussion.
He ended up raising more cash because he inspired people.
Racy, late-night text messages sent by drunks and potheads have inspired a new prime-time sitcom.
The inscription that inspired me was succinct and to the point.
The measuring rod is inspired by the poles land surveyors use to map and describe the physical landscape.
Certain kinds of situations inspired tolerance, and other kinds inspired the opposite.
He inspired his designers and engineers to build amazing computers.
Into them it inspired no other sentiments than those of exultation and rapture.
Players' relationships with bats have inspired any number of myths and tales.
The mysterious deep-sea creature has inspired countless sea monster tales and a variety of scientific expeditions.
The empiricism that now dominated philosophy and science inspired new mapping.
The legendary sci-fi franchise that changed pop culture-and inspired two generations of scientists-was rusting in space dock.
He inspired others to celebrate right along with him.
To make matters worse, the film has inspired a torrent of management drivel.
As a reminder, submissions should be true, original personal essays somehow inspired by this invitation.
We neglect this spirit of inspired immaturity at our own peril.
Tell us what inspired you to set out on this journey, and to pick this particular number of feet.
For many of us, it was the latter group who inspired us to become teachers.
But it hasn't exactly inspired a bunch of innovation rallies and bake sales.
They were inspired by the idea that flowers and plants naturally turn to face the sun.
In fact, there is a thread of truth that inspired the prank several years ago.
And that will prove that the definition of the gram was inspired by cosmic mind-energies.
They are inspired by tobacco's deadly active ingredient: nicotine.
Autism seems to play a genetically inspired hide-and-seek game in some families.
While this may be true, that building is filled with individuals who were inspired-by and copied the techniques of others.
Instead, she and her collaborator came up with an inspired organizational conceit.
Their work inspired her to learn to solder and familiarize herself with machine parts.
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