How to Use engender in a Sentence

engender

verb
  • The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
  • Why not scrabble around in the lives of the folks who engender them?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
  • The party’s fear of bold ideas engenders a public fear of the same.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • When your owners have helped engender a lot of that mistrust?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That has been engendered by the UFW and the press.
    — Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But a union-organizing drive can fall short and still engender change.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • And that will engender in some people's minds, folks to be violent.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That’s spreading kindness to engender the kind of kindness that helps shape chaos.
    — Gary Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Did seeing stronger face work engender anything in a rewriting process?
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Why do sports podcasts engender so much trust from their audience?
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • One of the surest ways to engender respect from white people the unmelanated is to die.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
  • And think of the goodwill that Temple would engender if a certain board chair paid for it.
    — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But that comes with the caveat that engendering reader trust is sometimes about playing the long game.
    — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
  • And that just engendered a whole body of work around discovery in MS.
    — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Potato pierogies with peach butter prompt none of the usual joy that dumplings engender.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire.
    — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • Dorsey has done some good things in the offseason, which should engender some confidence.
    — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The crossover between sports and music, that’s sort of engendered in each other.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The idea that anyone could love books as much as the thief even appeared to engender a certain empathy.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
  • That’s the kind of goodwill that both David and Ken have engendered over the course of their careers.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This boot engenders confidence in the far reaches of the backcountry and tours like a dream.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Risky for lack of protection, and risky to engender, perhaps, some variants.
    — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • He’s even begun to engender himself to his new receivers coach Robert Prince.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
  • But perhaps some of it had to do with precisely this feeling of poignancy that seeing me would have engendered in him.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The software design team that engendered the iPhone would change that forever.
    — Brian Merchant, Fortune, 28 June 2017
  • Guarding it in the way Kennedy did can help engender respect for the dignity of others.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
  • But the last two decades show that rising incomes aren’t always enough to engender good feelings about the economy.
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
  • All the choices the Texans have made since the end of the season, with very few exceptions, do not engender trust.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
  • One only needs to look at replies on X to see the level of harassment that kind of criticism can engender.
    — Sucharita Tyagi, Vox, 3 July 2024
  • The reader doesn't need this column as a mirror to reflect your own feelings of pride and hope that these young women and men engender in all of us.
    — Steve West, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018

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