How to Use ingrained in a Sentence

ingrained

adjective
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  • These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.
  • 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 heat is deeply ingrained in the walls and atmosphere, inescapable to all those who come here.
    — Richard Quest, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 disparity in health is deeply rooted and many of the practices and beliefs are ingrained.
    — Andrea Palmer, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Tovar explains these styles evolve for many reasons, and some are deeply ingrained in us over time.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Overall, tipping remains ingrained in the US, and arguably has spread to more services, in part due to the rise of cashless apps.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 4 May 2022
  • Everyone can fall prey to this ingrained way of thinking.
    — Keith M. Bellizzi, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These behavioral stereotypes are ingrained in how many view breeds, from Great Danes to shih tzus.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Two, the British Tories have an ingrained culture of stabbing their leaders in the back and in the front without compunction.
    — NBC News, 10 July 2022
  • Our ingrained stigmas around drugs and the people who use them run really deep.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Mentees can more quickly become ingrained in the business.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • It’s so deeply ingrained in us to fear that conversation.
    — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • The renovation resulted in a total shift of how the Davises use their space—and a challenge to even the most ingrained habits.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 25 July 2023
  • Triggers and events in the present can bring us back to core struggles that exist like stone etchings deeply ingrained in our psyche.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 26 May 2023
  • The lifesaving steps are better ingrained in a child’s mind with the help of a lovable visual aid such as Molly, Hilton said.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
  • And although things are definitely changing for the better, a lot of that stuff is still ingrained in us.
    — Kyle Buchanan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Smith has made sure the message has become ingrained with the freshmen and other newcomers on the roster.
    — Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But there’s something more deeply ingrained about the aura Brooks has brought to the Cavaliers’ program which animates the coach.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Wakefield was deeply ingrained in the fiery Red Sox-Yankees rivalry.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The enemy of my enemy is my friend is one of the most ingrained dynamics of collective life.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024

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