Example sentences for: instill

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

  • It is noted that mostly women narrate these legends, among themselves or from mothers to daughters, in a didactic fashion, to instill fear in young women so that they will not disregard parental authority.

  • Such a "point," once made, could not resist the tendency to instill feelings of "envy" and ressentiment on the part of an author perhaps better compensated and perhaps more "popular," but in the view of the critical intelligence--if any such fitful and discredited light may still be conceived as being within our sphere--not really as good as mine.

  • Perhaps the only celebrity divorce where stepping out was not a factor was that of Michael Jackson and his wife, Debbie Rowe, a parting that even the tabloids had a hard time trying to instill with the slightest hint of dramatic tension.

  • My favorite expert opinion comes from Dr. Dina Al-Refai, family medicine expert: "All these aches may instill in the child a hatred towards the school and finally have a negative impact on his academic performance, she remarked."

  • Participants uniformly agreed that the nation needs a strong, viable SEC to instill investor confidence in our markets.


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