How to Use ingrain in a Sentence

ingrain

verb

• That should be ingrained in each staff does with their team.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
• And that is so deeply ingrained in you, to be silent about it and to associate shame to it.
  — Noor Brara, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2018
• In Hawaii, protecting the ‘aina (land) is ingrained in the culture.
  — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
• From childhood on, a love of reading was ingrained in her life.
  — Glamour, 3 July 2019
• So again, this kind of work needs to be ingrained in everybody’s work plan.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
• In two games, Carpenter showed why the respect for him is ingrained across the game.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
• The number of hours in visual effects have been ingrained in the system for years.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Vance said the issue is a societal one that has been ingrained for at least 50 years.
  — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
• By the time a child is in the toddler through preschool stage, racial biases might already be ingrained.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
• The desire to succeed while helping others along the way was ingrained in Lin from childhood.
  — Fortune, 22 Jan. 2020
• That’s always been ingrained in Antonoff’s music, but never more so than with Red Hearse.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Sauna bathing is ingrained in the Finnish culture, and most people do it at least weekly, according to the researchers on the new study.
  — Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• Neil Armstrong’s first lunar footstep is ingrained in the minds of all humankind.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• By the time Kelly became UO head coach in 2009, the philosophy was ingrained in the program.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
• Being on the streets, let alone being with strange men, means the removal of a layer of protection that had been ingrained in the minds of both genders.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 24 June 2018
• There will be millions more dollars up for grabs in this channel in the next several years, and habits aren't yet ingrained for who gets them.
  — Sarah Halzack, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• The first priority for Wright will be to ingrain in his seniors — Booth and Paschall — what is expected of them as leaders of the team.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• And Gruden’s quick fuse and sarcastic humor are ingrained in his image as a head coach.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• My mother said his fingers Had oil-burner soot ingrained under the skin.
  — Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• The payroll software is part of a much larger SAP software suite that is ingrained in nearly every function of the city.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• After seeing all the media attention on shootings, it is ingrained in her to make a plan.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
• Paul went into ministry, ingraining his family in the ideals of the South Phoenix Baptist Church.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• School work and respect for others were ingrained early.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Feaster is ingrained in a Celtics squad contending for an NBA title.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Guns are deeply ingrained in the culture of Texas, where learning to shoot is a common a rite of passage and even some gun control proponents own firearms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• The idea that warming brings disaster is ingrained in the tradition of the Sakha people of Yakutia, the region laced by the Zyryanka and Kolyma rivers.
  — Anton Troianovski, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2019
• Is there something ingrained in Woodman’s work that explains, or predicts, her doom?
  — Anna Altman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
• The belief that living within your means is a necessary virtue is deeply ingrained in the German psyche.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• In between his last starts, Arrieta worked with different drills to re-ingrain that arm path.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• That’s because the mentality is ingrained in the program.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024