How to Use inborn in a Sentence

inborn

adjective
  • That kind of knowledge is acquired, not inborn.
  • She has an inborn talent for music.
  • Monkeys, on the other hand, are stuck with an inborn set of hoots and screams.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • This is important, since humans have an inborn hunger for good stories.
    — Diane Stopyra, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Chloe might not master sarcasm until her teen years, but her inborn knack for language is already clear.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018
  • There is no doubt of Petrenko’s inborn mastery of the art of conducting.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Some of it might be inborn biology, drawn from genetics or age.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Resurgence is a real sense in Detroit, a city where resilience is inborn and tougher tests have been endured.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
  • Resilience is not an inborn trait, though some people appear better prepared than others.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The entire industry of baby-proofing grows out of their inborn need to touch, see, taste, and experience the world around them.
    — Samantha Boardman, Marie Claire, 30 May 2019
  • Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 June 2023
  • Chua credits her children’s success to the parenting techniques and not to some inborn abilities.
    — Guest, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2011
  • French women have an inborn talent for recognizing quality and buying things that last.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Rather, perhaps via some inborn genetic quirk, her cells had found a way to naturally repel the pathogen’s assaults instead.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • To mistake such good fortune for inborn ability is to ignore the existence of history.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2017
  • But they’re often treated like inborn traits, skills more likely to be won in a genetic lottery than cultivated in a classroom.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That willingness to interact peacefully with others, even strangers, is inborn.
    — Richard Wrangham, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Research has also long shown that bigotry is not an inborn human trait, but rather something learned from our environments, Byrd says.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Platt notes that this change in approach came at a time when popular ideas about race were shifting toward a focus on inborn, genetic differences.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Any portrayal of gay men as a lab-pure reduction of maleness—whether inborn or socially constructed—is too simple.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
  • Some individuals may have an inborn resistance to a chemical while others do not.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • The author of those words has since recanted, and experts are increasingly coming to view happiness as a talent, not an inborn trait.
    — David Futrelle, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • There’s a certain inborn suspicion of centralized moderation here, with a clear desire to slough off as much as possible to the end users.
    — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Ministers in Emerson’s circles espoused inborn goodness and a knowledge of God at birth.
    — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Bird gut microbiomes might have more to do with their environment than the inborn, consistent relationship that is seen in most mammal species.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But so are inborn ability, partnership rapport, desire and — maybe most of all — concentration.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The disavowal of our inborn circadian rhythms, brought on by a 24-hour lifestyle lit by neon and fueled by caffeine, also bears part of the blame.
    — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2012
  • The convert is taken first by impulse, the inborn instinct toward the supernatural, the soul’s longing for purpose.
    — John Hirschauer, National Review, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Fear poses little difficulty given that we are already used to thinking of animals as motivated by an inborn fear of death.
    — Time, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The reactionary right pretends to have a philosophy based on universal, inborn truths that no reasonable person could deny.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023

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