How to Use ingrained in a Sentence
ingrained
adjective- These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.
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On the verge of turning 40, all my habits felt ingrained.
— Liza Monroy, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 -
Those words, the book titles, and R.L. Stine’s name were sort of ingrained in our minds.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The details of each are ingrained in his mind, even more than a decade later.
— Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2021 -
The heat is deeply ingrained in the walls and atmosphere, inescapable to all those who come here.
— Richard Quest, CNN, 8 May 2023 -
In the Handbook of The Working Adult, the two-week rule is as ingrained as the ban on tuna fish lunches.
— Diego Wyatt, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2021 -
The shoemakers have always been deeply ingrained in the sport.
— oregonlive, 14 July 2022 -
Google also has the deeply ingrained behavior of the masses to fall back on.
— Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023 -
The tech is so ingrained that even memory loss can’t take it away.
— Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021 -
The buffet takes most of the ingrained fears and behaviors of the pandemic and turns them on their heads.
— Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021 -
The crux of the issue lies in the deeply ingrained belief that constant hustle is the only growth path.
— John Jarosz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
And the idea of aperitivo, the French apéro, is so ingrained in my culture.
— Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2021 -
The Bengals are ingrained in your identity and a source of pride and self-esteem.
— The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2022 -
The features of that firmly ingrained culture are well known.
— Neil Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023 -
The idea is that all the advance work will become so ingrained that instinct takes over during the shoot.
— New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021 -
The food courts have gained a cult-like following over the years and become ingrained in pop culture.
— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2021 -
Alexa remains too ingrained within the Amazon brand to fade into the night.
— Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022 -
And maybe this is just ingrained in me, but that’s what was told to us: Outsiders have bad intentions.
— The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
The parish is deeply ingrained into their lives and families.
— Rick Rojas, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022 -
First, there is often a tendency to get mired and deeply ingrained in your life’s work.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022 -
There’s a lot of stuff you get told, that gets really ingrained into you, that’s not true.
— Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021 -
At this point, in the social-media age, it’s become ingrained into the game.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021 -
Next to his head hangs a rough blue curtain with an ingrained smell of cigarette smoke.
— David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024 -
Right now, the desire to not touch anything has become ingrained.
— Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020 -
Durk and Von had an ingrained chemistry that stemmed from growing up in the same neighborhood.
— Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022 -
After all, meat is deeply ingrained in many cultures, as is dairy.
— Bernard Marr, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 -
The tradition of White House pets is so ingrained that Trump drew some suspicion about his lack of a pet.
— Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020 -
In his hands, one of Bach’s most ingrained works became a thing of delight and discovery.
— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024 -
But odds are that a guy who would stay with a Jane despite all the problems has a more ingrained self-destructive streak in him.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2021 -
Nevertheless, as Pluto transits each sign, lessons and revelations are far-reaching and deeply ingrained in the collective psyche.
— Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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