How to Use entrain in a Sentence

entrain

verb
  • The music entrains our feet and hands to move in that rhythm.
    — Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Our desire to feel good (and not bad) entrains us to fulfill our bodies’ needs.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Likewise, if two infants are laid side-by-side, the stronger breather will entrain the breathing of the weaker.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The artificial lights of a lab could also entrain their body clocks to the wrong daily rhythms, driving them to search for mates at the wrong time of the day.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
  • Light is by far the most important factor that helps entrain, or synchronize, human circadian rhythms.
    — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
  • In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
    — Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Soon after, other studies by separate research teams showed that numerous species of parrots could entrain to a beat, as could elephants.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • If a bunch of grandfather clocks are put in room together, for example, the biggest amplitude signal will entrain the others.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Ticking away at the molecular level, the biological clock is entrained — or set — by exposure to sunlight and darkness.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • External cues, primarily light, but also heat and a few other things, work to entrain, or synchronize, our circadian rhythms throughout the day.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2021
  • About half of the emissions are taken up by the land and the oceans, which act as carbon sinks, entraining the greenhouse gas and preventing it from accelerating climate change even further.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 June 2023
  • At this height the Senna’s double diffuser is fully entrained (higher downforce and less drag) due to a phenomenon pilots know as ground effects.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • The counterclockwise-spinning low is entraining a filament of rich air from the Central Pacific thousands of miles to the southwest.
    — Scott Dance, Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As oxidizer flowed over it, tiny droplets of liquid pentane would become entrained in the stream of gas, and the multitude of droplets offered an enormous amount of surface area for evaporation and burning.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2014
  • And Pandora orbits inside Saturn's rings themselves, its meager gravity enough to entrain the particles in the thin F ring and keep it in place.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
  • When thunderstorms blossom, their updrafts can vertically entrain and stretch any nascent low-level swirl, helping to establish a more cohesive center of circulation.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Warmer air, for example, boosts evaporation, which leads to more moisture entrained in the atmosphere, intensifying rainfalls, while warmer oceans provide an energy source for more violent hurricanes.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The blue clustering is an area of low correlation, meaning that there are unusual shapes in the atmosphere – in this case, tornadic debris, the remnants of people’s homes, vegetation, shrapnel, and anything else entrained in the vortex.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2017
  • As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013

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