How to Use ingratiate in a Sentence

ingratiate

verb

• One by one, the four ingratiate themselves as key cogs of the rich and naive Park family.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
• Their first moves did not ingratiate the new owners with fans.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The quickest way for Riley to ingratiate himself with his new fan base is to change those trends.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Dan (Reid Scott) tries to ingratiate himself at his new job.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 9 Apr. 2017
• Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.
  — Fu Goto, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• If true, calling their most beloved player around a saint is one way to ingratiate herself with her hosts.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 May 2017
• Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, the members of the Thursday Murder Club start to ingratiate themselves with key players in the case.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• But after a few plays, Scott ingratiates himself into your psyche in a third-grade crush kind of way.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The move has been seen mostly as a way for the new leader to ingratiate himself to the Trump administration.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
• The owner wants to be here, has in eight months more overtly tried to ingratiate himself to the locals than what his family did over 34 years in San Diego.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• And this does not ingratiate him with Western governments and with the U.S. embassy.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2019
• And how did an ill-fated financier end up ingratiating himself to one of the world’s richest men?
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Since the outset of last season, Curry has cut down on his circus shots, in part to ingratiate Durant.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 June 2018
• People who attend get access to French bulldogs for 70 minutes, as well as bags of treats to ingratiate them, but there's something in it for the dogs, too.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
• Scenes like those from Thursday night certainly won’t ingratiate Allen with his new team or its fans.
  — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Would Dershowitz turn up, looking to ingratiate himself with the blue-state elite by buying a leftist baked good?
  — Christopher Bonanos, The Cut, 5 July 2018
• Phil Wong conjures a whole character, a needy, ingratiating student in the prison writing class, out of two words of script.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• A lot of fraudsters ingratiate themselves, and are very kind and thoughtful, and appear to be very sincere people.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• And Stormzy, age 29, hasn’t gone out of his way to ingratiate himself with U.S. audiences.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• His off-the-cuff remarks have not ingratiated him to everyone Wall Street.
  — Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
• In that film, the character attempts to ingratiate herself with the friends of her teen-age daughter by crossing boundaries.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
• In the two months since, Paxton has only continued to ingratiate himself with the Dodgers’ clubhouse.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• Peter Angelos, who died at 94 years old last month, also said all the right things in those early days to ingratiate himself with fans.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is her attempt to try to ingratiate her snakelike way into human form.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 8 Feb. 2018
• Unable to face the disappointed wrath of Aunt Rae, Larry ingratiates her by pleading not guilty and promising to fight the good fight on trial.
  — Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
• Jade isn’t the only gem that’s ingratiated itself into our hair-care routines of late.
  — Zoe Weiner, Allure, 27 July 2018
• The funding surge serves to partially confirm the claims from Trump and some of his allies that an indictment would only serve to further ingratiate him to his base.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
• No one admits that booking events there is an effort to ingratiate themselves with the president, but the look is at best unseemly.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 19 July 2019
• Further, Sansonetti argued, Clausen worked to ingratiate himself with wealthy people for free luxuries and abused Mitziga’s trust.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
• The leads have been cast as a marital duo before and their ingratiating chemistry feels natural, with both characters sporting a degree of slyly amusing guilelessness.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024