Example sentences for: ingrained

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

  • It is a legacy of evolution that teleology—the tendency to explain natural phenomena in terms of purposes—is deeply ingrained in biology, and not in other fields (Ayala 1999).

  • She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."

  • Apathy is deeply ingrained and it is unlikely things will change, despite the widespread repugnance and anger shown by most of the country's citizens," but an editorial in El Tiempo suggested otherwise.

  • Whether or not this story is true, it is now deeply ingrained in the public consciousness, and Bush can't look to his party in Washington for an effective rebuttal to it.

  • Unrest and some political extremism have surfaced from time to time, but since aid from France is so vital, and French customs so ingrained, it seems almost inconceivable that the FWI will seek total independence as other Caribbean islands have done.


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