How to Use assimilate in a Sentence

assimilate

verb

• Schools were used to assimilate the children of immigrants.
• There was a lot of information to assimilate at school.
• Children need to assimilate new ideas.
• Many of these religious traditions have been assimilated into the culture.
• They found it hard to assimilate to American society.
• At the root of it all is a desire to assimilate — or, even escape.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 10 May 2023
• Matt has not needed to assimilate in the way that the narrator had to.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Also, always having to assimilate and adapt from one place to the next.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 May 2023
• And the ones who assimilate fastest and whose children improve their lot the most are often the ones who faced the most contempt upon arrival.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Lewis explained in order to adjust to their new lives, her family had to change their way of life and assimilate to customs in the U.S.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The team captains have also been looked to to help new players assimilate more quickly.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Above all, Chavarria and Lopez have never sought to assimilate in order to find success.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2023
• The trailer offers glimpses of Gordon’s attempt to assimilate into the customs of Québec City, Canada, and his would-be in-laws.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• And in the second half of the 20th century, that image helped the faith assimilate into the American mainstream.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
• Most were placed with white families or in boarding schools in attempts to assimilate them.
  — Mark Sherman, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• Where her father’s generation may have felt a need to dress down and assimilate, she’s sensed a freeing shift.
  — Gabe Hiatt, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• Her parents grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and were encouraged to assimilate by not speaking Spanish.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• If this is likely to be the case, nothing will have prepared us to assimilate its promise or to fortify ourselves against the worst outcomes.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• The 73-year-old is a survivor of a day school — part of a system that, like residential schools, aimed to assimilate Indigenous children.
  — Peter Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
• The schools were part of a twin U.S. policy to assimilate Native Americans while taking their land.
  — Jeff Gammage, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2022
• They were made to assimilate to the government’s preferred way of life, often through violence.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2022
• My late mother didn’t have much of a chance to fully assimilate into American life.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Many children were often placed with white families or sent to boarding schools in an attempt to assimilate them.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• Jonas’ attempt to assimilate into the world of Bridgerton is hardly his only foray into TV as of late.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2022
• With time, Nguyen also became more understanding of her parents’ push to assimilate her as a young girl.
  — Katie C Reilly, ELLE, 27 July 2023
• From there, the cells might linger, grow, and divide for decades, or even, as many scientists suspect, for a lifetime, assimilating into the person that conceived them.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2024
• Russian workers were sent in to settle and assimilate many areas.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
• Whether Wood and Colton were part of the group Toews was frustrated with is immaterial, but the improvements those two have made in assimilating to how the Avs want to play are obvious.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Watching two generations of women try to assimilate at different stages in their lives is exciting and amusing.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• Organizations should also examine how their culture puts pressure on people from non-majority groups to assimilate.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024