How to Use entrain in a Sentence

entrain

verb

• The music entrains our feet and hands to move in that rhythm.
  — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
• The artificial lights of a lab could also entrain their body clocks to the wrong daily rhythms, driving them to search for mates at the wrong time of the day.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
• If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
• In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
  — Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• And Pandora orbits inside Saturn's rings themselves, its meager gravity enough to entrain the particles in the thin F ring and keep it in place.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
• Soon after, other studies by separate research teams showed that numerous species of parrots could entrain to a beat, as could elephants.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
• The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• At this height the Senna’s double diffuser is fully entrained (higher downforce and less drag) due to a phenomenon pilots know as ground effects.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• Light is by far the most important factor that helps entrain, or synchronize, human circadian rhythms.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
• Ticking away at the molecular level, the biological clock is entrained — or set — by exposure to sunlight and darkness.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The blue clustering is an area of low correlation, meaning that there are unusual shapes in the atmosphere – in this case, tornadic debris, the remnants of people’s homes, vegetation, shrapnel, and anything else entrained in the vortex.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2017
• But what Assaneo observed was rather more interesting and surprising, Poeppel said: The auditory and speech motor activities did stay entrained, but only up to about 5 hertz.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2018
• As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
• The music entrains our feet and hands to move in that rhythm.
  — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
• The artificial lights of a lab could also entrain their body clocks to the wrong daily rhythms, driving them to search for mates at the wrong time of the day.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
• If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
• In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
  — Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• And Pandora orbits inside Saturn's rings themselves, its meager gravity enough to entrain the particles in the thin F ring and keep it in place.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
• Soon after, other studies by separate research teams showed that numerous species of parrots could entrain to a beat, as could elephants.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
• The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• At this height the Senna’s double diffuser is fully entrained (higher downforce and less drag) due to a phenomenon pilots know as ground effects.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• Light is by far the most important factor that helps entrain, or synchronize, human circadian rhythms.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
• Ticking away at the molecular level, the biological clock is entrained — or set — by exposure to sunlight and darkness.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• The blue clustering is an area of low correlation, meaning that there are unusual shapes in the atmosphere – in this case, tornadic debris, the remnants of people’s homes, vegetation, shrapnel, and anything else entrained in the vortex.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2017
• But what Assaneo observed was rather more interesting and surprising, Poeppel said: The auditory and speech motor activities did stay entrained, but only up to about 5 hertz.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2018
• As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013

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