How to Use intrinsic in a Sentence

intrinsic

adjective

• The idea of genre as a space to express these things was intrinsic.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 4 July 2020
• Why is that so important to you and intrinsic to the brand?
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2021
• For these folks, the phone has become an intrinsic part of their lives.
  — Ryan Knutson, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
• Simon doesn’t shy away from the intrinsic role that race, class and gender played in the tragedy.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
• The violence is intrinsic to the sport—a feature of it.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
• This is a project that is so intrinsic to Rebel and her Australian roots.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 24 May 2023
• And the virus does seem to have a lower intrinsic pathogenicity to it.
  — ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
• Leighton saw value in the whole, not just the intrinsic worth of the materials.
  — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018
• In some sense, the number 2 is an intrinsic feature of sphere-ness.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
• There’s a view of arms control as an intrinsic good, per se.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Make a list of specific intrinsic goals and work to achieve them.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
• Mazurenko’s turns of phrase, his patterns of speech—were traits intrinsic to what made him him.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
• The materials used are intrinsic to the customs of the Far North.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Again, the cap had no intrinsic value and the birds didn’t know of Kabadayi would return with food.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
• When the stock price equals the strike, the option contract no longer has any intrinsic value.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• These days, patchouli is an intrinsic part of the perfumer’s palette.
  — April Long, Town & Country, 28 July 2019
• What’s at stake here is not a person’s intrinsic worth, right?
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the freedom to control one's body is intrinsic to controlling one's life.
  — Maybelle Morgan, refinery29.com, 10 May 2022
• The intrinsic pleasures of coding or wealth are enough.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2020
• And people have an intrinsic value in themselves and a need to work.
  — Fox News, 18 July 2018
• The game has to stand on its own as its own brand of basketball with an intrinsic value aside from just the hoopla of March.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• For the votes of a majority have no intrinsic bearing on the conduct of a school.
  — Walter Lippmann, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• What has happened here is not about your intrinsic worth (or hers).
  — Shon Faye, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
• The stars’ light waxes and wanes at a rate that signals their intrinsic brightness.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
• The intrinsic value of firearms may not be obvious to most.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
• Yes, over the long term, the intrinsic value of healthy and growing companies will grow.
  — Dallas News, 30 May 2021
• The pin’s intrinsic value, Munn said, would be about $40, based on the materials it is made of.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• NFTs are a form of currency with an intrinsic value which run on the Ethereum blockchain.
  — Leda Alvim, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Particles such as electrons have a kind of intrinsic angular momentum called spin, for instance, and terms capturing the effects of spin go up top.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
• Colorado wildlife experts are at odds over whether a ballot measure to ban the hunting of certain wildcats would help or hurt the formidable felines that have long been intrinsic to Rocky Mountain ecosystems.
  — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024