How to Use indoctrinate in a Sentence

indoctrinate

verb
  • The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.
  • The jury is out on whether the cast indoctrinated us into any of these.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Parents are allowed to indoctrinate their children in all sorts of crazy ideas, and even put them through surgery.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2012
  • Putting an end to her attempts to indoctrinate your toddler is as easy as hiring a babysitter.
    — Abigail Van Buren, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • So to say my dad indoctrinated me is, well, a bit of an understatement.
    — Chuck Todd, The MMQB, 3 July 2017
  • Homemade treats We've all been indoctrinated that homemade is a no-no at trick or treat.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
  • These places have a lot of power over the people that became indoctrinated.
    — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The staff members in green vests did not appear to be indoctrinating anyone.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But parents who are complacent about many things will not sit by idly while their tax dollars are being used to indoctrinate them.
    — Michael Farris, National Review, 9 June 2021
  • The defense of the idea that children should be able to go to school and get educated and not indoctrinated.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The defense of the idea that children should be able to go to school and get educated and not indoctrinated.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most of us have been indoctrinated rather than educated about wars of conquest.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Schools should breed critical thinking such that no book or lesson has the power to indoctrinate a worldview.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2022
  • What was the right age to begin indoctrinating her daughter in feminism?
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 28 May 2018
  • The problem has always been the professors who have been indoctrinating them.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Miller said in a post-trade podcast appearance of being indoctrinated by his new teammates.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
  • People can go online and get just indoctrinated with with some of this messaging from across across the globe really.
    — John Shumway, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Those are Democratic talking points being pushed to our schools to indoctrinate our kids, to become haters.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The latest looks to be indoctrinated into the laundry list of niche style aesthetics?
    — Channing Smith, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • College Board has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
    — Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Focus on reading, writing, arithmetic, and arts instead of indoctrinating the minds of our youth.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But rather than try to indoctrinate a new era of fans into Super Troopers-dom, the movie just ends up calling back to the old.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • We’ve been conditioned and indoctrinated with a cyber-sense of how to consume music.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The College Board, the maker of the course, has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
    — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The tool has proved to be a popular way to indoctrinate students to global issues, Niazi said.
    — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Already indoctrinated into the crime world, William quickly finds a place in Fisk’s crime crew.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The College Board has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
  • This tells the researchers not only how well the robot is indoctrinating the subjects, but how chicks can vary in their acceptance of a fake mother.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2018
  • That's about a drone operator who came from a poor family, who is indoctrinated into the military and sold on it as a way out.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Their aim was to indoctrinate Muslim youth with an austere, rigid, and pristine vision of Islam.
    — Sohel Rana, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021

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