How to Use engender in a Sentence

engender

verb

• The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
• Why not scrabble around in the lives of the folks who engender them?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
• The party’s fear of bold ideas engenders a public fear of the same.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
• This will engender a new era in global golf, for the better.
  — Town & Country, 6 June 2023
• And think of the goodwill that Temple would engender if a certain board chair paid for it.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• One of the surest ways to engender respect from white people the unmelanated is to die.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
• The remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire.
  — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• All the choices the Texans have made since the end of the season, with very few exceptions, do not engender trust.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
• The Holy Week Uprising engendered a great deal of fear.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
• Watching him trot around the globe week to week engendered only the warmest of envies.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 9 June 2018
• The approach was inspired by the Black Panthers and sought to mend the divisions engendered by gang life.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• This boot engenders confidence in the far reaches of the backcountry and tours like a dream.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• Saunders said he isn't surprised by the outpouring of good will engendered by the video.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• But that comes with the caveat that engendering reader trust is sometimes about playing the long game.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• The prospect of a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem didn’t engender nearly as much anger or violence as a cartoon of the Prophet.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• Snow White and the Huntsman director, and, due to the horror this engendered, was banished from the sequel.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• Whether The Conners can slough off the bad feelings engendered by Barr in erasing her from the series remains to be seen.
  — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 22 June 2018
• Guarding it in the way Kennedy did can help engender respect for the dignity of others.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• The incident isn’t the first time Offset and Cardi have engendered backlash due to their use of slurs.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 22 Jan. 2018
• In the season opener, Ohio State’s offensive line was one of the few places that engender pessimism.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
• That’s spreading kindness to engender the kind of kindness that helps shape chaos.
  — Gary Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022
• And that will engender in some people's minds, folks to be violent.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The crossover between sports and music, that’s sort of engendered in each other.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
• The idea that anyone could love books as much as the thief even appeared to engender a certain empathy.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
• The software design team that engendered the iPhone would change that forever.
  — Brian Merchant, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• That Trump said untrue things about a focal point of his plan also does not engender confidence in the rest of the measures.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
• All over the world, the invasion engendered tremendous ill will toward the United States.
  — Isaiah Wilson Iii, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2023
• But a union-organizing drive can fall short and still engender change.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• At the end of the day, the purpose of assigning a problem set is not to have the student solve the problems per se but to use the work that students do while solving the problems to engender a certain amount of learning in the student.
  — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Conversely, any reluctance that law enforcement can engender around the application undermines bad actors who might use it.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024