Example sentences for: assimilating

How can you use “assimilating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Unmaking the underclass would answer white fears while giving lower-class blacks a chance they are now largely denied: that of assimilating into the mainstream of an integrated society.

  • Assimilating more easily with the Anglo community — only Protestant schools accepted their children — Eastern European Jews have “graduated” to wealthy Westmount or emigrated, again, to Toronto.

  • Exploiting a natural genius for assimilating the useful elements of the local culture rather than indiscriminately imposing their own, they adopted Arab-style tax collectors and customs officials and Byzantine fleet-admirals for their navy.

  • Yet at least for the CIA, part of the burden in tackling terrorism arose from the background we have described: an organization capable of attracting extraordinarily motivated people but institutionally averse to risk, with its capacity for covert action atrophied, predisposed to restrict the distribution of information, having difficulty assimilating new types of personnel, and accustomed to presenting descriptive reportage of the latest intelligence.


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