How to Use ingrained in a Sentence

ingrained

adjective
  • These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.
  • How to remove ingrained dirt from a wood floor?
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Barkin said the new practices are now ingrained and the norm.
    — Kelly David Burke, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But the drive to learn is still deeply ingrained in human nature.
    — Sari Factor, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The tech is so ingrained that even memory loss can’t take it away.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
  • Shopping habits vary widely from city to city and are deeply ingrained.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The details of each are ingrained in his mind, even more than a decade later.
    — Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • After all, meat is deeply ingrained in many cultures, as is dairy.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The problems of young kids are sweeping and deeply ingrained.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2020
  • But why has wrestling become so ingrained in the state's culture?
    — Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The system is so ingrained, the wait staff doesn't even write out orders for the cooks.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 9 May 2018
  • Ups and downs are so ingrained that crazy success is seen as an omen that the end may be around the corner.
    — Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Next to his head hangs a rough blue curtain with an ingrained smell of cigarette smoke.
    — David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
  • First, there is often a tendency to get mired and deeply ingrained in your life’s work.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Right now, the desire to not touch anything has become ingrained.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
  • The heat is deeply ingrained in the walls and atmosphere, inescapable to all those who come here.
    — Richard Quest, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • The parish is deeply ingrained into their lives and families.
    — Rick Rojas, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • The shoemakers have always been deeply ingrained in the sport.
    — oregonlive, 14 July 2022
  • There’s a lot of stuff you get told, that gets really ingrained into you, that’s not true.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The idea is that all the advance work will become so ingrained that instinct takes over during the shoot.
    — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The food courts have gained a cult-like following over the years and become ingrained in pop culture.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2021
  • At this point, in the social-media age, it’s become ingrained into the game.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The buffet takes most of the ingrained fears and behaviors of the pandemic and turns them on their heads.
    — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The Bengals are ingrained in your identity and a source of pride and self-esteem.
    — The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The downside is that New Yorkers are ingrained to be blasé about all their riches.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • Alexa remains too ingrained within the Amazon brand to fade into the night.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Durk and Von had an ingrained chemistry that stemmed from growing up in the same neighborhood.
    — Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
  • There are few garments more ingrained in the preppy aesthetic than short-sleeve polo shirts.
    — Lucía Tejo, Glamour, 25 May 2026
  • And the idea of aperitivo, the French apéro, is so ingrained in my culture.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2021
  • His proposal is to design them with an ingrained sense of care, modeled on a parent’s concern for a child.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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