How to Use opine in a Sentence

opine

verb
  • You can opine about any subject you like.
  • Many people opine that the content of Web pages should be better regulated.
  • That’s what everybody wants to know and opine on.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Muldoon was here to opine, tweak, and savor, but not to boss.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Some fans opined that the musical's better songs are in its first half.
    — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Ackman, 57, has opined on thorny topics big and small for years.
    — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, even mainstream celebrities have opined on the matter.
    — Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Help a Saul-a-holic out in the comments section, and opine away on the episode.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Here, fashion experts opine on what looks are best left in the past—and what to try instead.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Again, this is not to say that there isn’t a right to opine vigorously or even to be wrong.
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The trial judge opined that the campaign was not relevant to the case.
    — Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
  • To riff off the old saying, to err is human, so AI must opine.
    — Adam Rodman, STAT, 3 May 2024
  • In the business world, an expert may opine that a certain action is risky.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The authors also don’t opine on how Ghosn feels now about his escape.
    — Joe Nocera, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There are no details as to what Maron will opine on in the new untitled hour.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The final report will be made public, at which point people will be able to opine.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The show’s premise affords plenty of time for Fletcher to opine about his job.
    — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Mark Twain would later opine that humans are the only species that needs to blush.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Hood opined that the non-endorsement could have come down to the open-endedness of who could win.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 9 May 2026
  • The justices may, then, have no choice but to opine about the meaning of a portrait of Prince.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The Times asked those who have been in the creator economy for decades to opine on what the new year will bring.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps by then, the court opined, a workable alternative to the use of race would have been found.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2019
  • At one point, Fritz opined that players should be given a free pass for some of their misdemeanors.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Some did come to her defense, opining that 21 Savage should not have dissed her day job.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 12 June 2019
  • While some may have wanted to opine, Cucinelli kept it brief, speaking for just over two minutes.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
  • McCourt is now one of the latest in the line of thinkers to have opined about the state of the digital world.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Critics have opined that the overall style of the show is more approachable than the original.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • This all sounds silly; why does anyone feel the need to opine about the postseason in Week 3?
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But the judge opined that he was being asked to substitute his own judgment for the governor’s.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Humans are overdue for a return trip to the moon, Stephen Hawking has just opined.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2017

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