Example sentences for: ingratiate

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

  • They have portrayed anti-Pollard Jewish groups as lapdogs trying to ingratiate themselves with mainstream America.

  • Unlike earlier black comedians, Pryor never tried to ingratiate himself with white audiences or cloak his rage.

  • Anderson's museum is traditional, art-history-minded, and eager to ingratiate itself with, rather than flabbergast and dumbfound, up- and out-of-towners.

  • Also the freeze-frame on her in the classroom, her hand waving in the air like a tentacle, her eye-lid half closed, her lips moving into position for that grin that wants to ingratiate but looks like a grimace.

  • Castro had not displayed any Communist inclinations in the 1950s, and some suggest that US aggression pushed him to ingratiate himself with the powerful Soviet Union and its Eastern block of potential trading partners.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast