How to Use assimilate in a Sentence

assimilate

verb
  • Schools were used to assimilate the children of immigrants.
  • There was a lot of information to assimilate at school.
  • Children need to assimilate new ideas.
  • Many of these religious traditions have been assimilated into the culture.
  • They found it hard to assimilate to American society.
  • At the root of it all is a desire to assimilate — or, even escape.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 10 May 2023
  • Matt has not needed to assimilate in the way that the narrator had to.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Also, always having to assimilate and adapt from one place to the next.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • The team captains have also been looked to to help new players assimilate more quickly.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Most were placed with white families or in boarding schools in attempts to assimilate them.
    — Mark Sherman, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Sugar is ordered by his fellow aliens to not assimilate during his time on Earth.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
  • Russian workers were sent in to settle and assimilate many areas.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
  • There is no pre-season or ample training sessions to assimilate.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That support can be measured in time in the community to assimilate back into the pace of life.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Many children were often placed with white families or sent to boarding schools in an attempt to assimilate them.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Islamists aren't here to assimilate.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • And the ones who assimilate fastest and whose children improve their lot the most are often the ones who faced the most contempt upon arrival.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • African colonial subjects who assimilated French culture were once called évolués, or evolved ones.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • My late mother didn’t have much of a chance to fully assimilate into American life.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But for some reason, Irish was a little easier to assimilate.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • At school, Arab and Muslim students often feel pressure to assimilate and fit in with peers.
    — Hind Haddad, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • They were made to assimilate to the government’s preferred way of life, often through violence.
    — New York Times, 30 July 2022
  • Above all, Chavarria and Lopez have never sought to assimilate in order to find success.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than assimilate, the Jews rebelled against their oppressors.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 10 Oct. 2022
  • My relatives had to assimilate, which required learning English to live and work here.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
  • With time, Nguyen also became more understanding of her parents’ push to assimilate her as a young girl.
    — Katie C Reilly, ELLE, 27 July 2023
  • If this is likely to be the case, nothing will have prepared us to assimilate its promise or to fortify ourselves against the worst outcomes.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Castillo, who now faces the prospect of decades behind bars, appeared unable to assimilate his vertiginous fall from office.
    — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The majority of us are encouraged to assimilate and fix our deafness, and that can create a lot of isolation.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Look for the victory total to move in lockstep with the speed the Bobcats assimilate their newcomers.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025

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