How to Use inure in a Sentence

inure

verb

• Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?
• This would inure to the benefit of customers and the workforce.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• That has inured to the great detriment of the American People.
  — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Although our incarceration rate leads the world, we’re inured to the irony that the land of the free is also the empire of the jailed.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Even in a city inured to violent crime, the murder of Officer Dols in 1997 was a shock.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• Still, swings in the pound are becoming restrained as traders get inured to Brexit news.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Portis was by then mostly inured to the aura of celebrity.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• And the astronauts themselves were, for the most part, inured to their mortality.
  — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Yet four or five blocks from the fighting, the group of men reacted to their captivity with placid resolve, inured to war’s chaos.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
• The paucity of loos on a mountain or moor is unavoidable, and to an extent one becomes inured to pulling down your pants in the countryside.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• To players who grew inured to playing deep into June, the next set of challenges might seem exciting.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• If Americans aren't afraid of the flu, perhaps that's because they are inured to yearly warnings.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
• Three years after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub, the community gathers to honor the victims, the inured and the first responders.
  — Todd Stewart, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• In part, Amazon has inured itself to pressure from Wall Street by ignoring it.
  — Michael Corkery and Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• City dwellers are inured to the violence on the evening news, but an unexplained disappearance in a place that’s supposed to be a safe retreat?
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2020
• Vaulting a few women of color to the top gives the beauty standard a progressive sheen that helps inure it from criticism.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• The long-time Tennessee whiskey purveyor noted that its strong brand portfolio and investment inured it from the cost of the tariffs.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 5 June 2019
• Meanwhile, the dollar’s steady rise has stalled in recent weeks, with strategists suggesting that investors are becoming inured to the trade fight.
  — David Hodari, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Yet the risk of becoming inured to this farce constitutes a separate danger.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• However, Bloomberg has used his wealth in a way that could ultimately inure to his benefit.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• The mob is in front of the courthouse because we are inured to the unspoken reality that the Court is innately political.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• The deluges have overwhelmed rescuers and threatened even the most hardened residents inured to frequent snowstorms.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2023
• That discount will inure to the benefit of your beneficiaries, if the value of those assets rises.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Still back then, being the hottest thing ever did not inure you from certain prejudices, and certain indignities.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2022
• And while shock and sadness from the loss is palpable, the sheer frequency of the incidents has left financial markets largely inured to them, with fallout once measured in days now lasting just hours.
  — Laurence Arnold, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
• But even passengers inured to the T’s woeful recent performance struggle with the uncertainty of when things will improve.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• With the president's winks and nods to white nationalism, the country will become more and more inured, perhaps indifferent to, these violent acts.
  — Rich Benjamin, Esquire, 14 Aug. 2017
• As the Government concedes, that access will inure right away to the benefit of AT&T’s current video distribution subscribers.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 15 June 2018
• The stories of Yazidi refugees like him seem to show efforts by the Islamic State to create a new generation of fighters loyal to the group's ideology and inured to its extreme violence.
  — Emily Feldman, Newsweek, 6 July 2017
• Something about that juxtaposition—Aristotle in the mornings, clumsy pots of dal in the evenings—has inured me to all visions of moral philosophy as a simple variety of self-help.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024