How to Use ingrain in a Sentence

ingrain

verb
  • Hell yeah, bro, it’s ingrained.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Are there bars from those freestyles still ingrained in your brain?
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Is that something that was just ingrained in you from a young age?
    — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • But all Dijon can think about now is what gets ingrained.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 8 Dec. 2025
  • From childhood on, a love of reading was ingrained in her life.
    — Glamour, 3 July 2019
  • So again, this kind of work needs to be ingrained in everybody’s work plan.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • And that is so deeply ingrained in you, to be silent about it and to associate shame to it.
    — Noor Brara, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2018
  • All of that kind of thinking is fully ingrained in stunt people now.
    — Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2026
  • It should be ingrained in every officer who wears the badge.
    — Dave Savini, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Change is possible, no matter how ingrained our bad habits are.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Coachella is where brands go to become ingrained in culture.
    — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That mindset becomes ingrained over time.
    — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • That flair isn’t just for show; it’s ingrained in the culture, even in the smallest moments.
    — Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The number of hours in visual effects have been ingrained in the system for years.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Life is for love to be fully present and ingrained in every action that one chooses to do.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
  • History runs deep and is ingrained in every person and place here.
    — Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • So that’s been ingrained in my muscle memory.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The two-week gap between the first and second legs has ingrained caution in trainers for years.
    — Mike Wilson, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • The ritual of the countdown timer is ingrained in a racer’s head.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In two games, Carpenter showed why the respect for him is ingrained across the game.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Vance said the issue is a societal one that has been ingrained for at least 50 years.
    — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
  • By the time a child is in the toddler through preschool stage, racial biases might already be ingrained.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But changing user habits is never easy, and the idea of browsing the web is deeply ingrained in users.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But changing user habits is never easy, and the idea of browsing the web is deeply ingrained in users.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • It’s so deeply ingrained in my history, in my personal life.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Since decor stuck around a bit longer, the style of this decade is more clearly defined and ingrained in memories.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In Hawaii, protecting the ‘aina (land) is ingrained in the culture.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
  • Despite long days on set, the siblings didn’t fight — a life lesson their parents ingrained in them at a very young age.
    — Emily Weaver, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Those words have been virtually ingrained in the players’ heads.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • My mother said his fingers Had oil-burner soot ingrained under the skin.
    — Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023

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