How to Use ingrate in a Sentence

ingrate

noun
  • The violent ingrates stole the man’s phone and hopped out of the car.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Just don’t act like an ingrate by twisting your face to clearly show your displeasure.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Now hopefully some of you ingrates are going to make up for ruining my life by launching a GoFundMe page to pay my legal bills.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • No more high-revving VTEC four-cylinder and slick manual transmission for you ingrates, because—wait, hold on a moment.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
  • Rosen was pilloried by the college sports establishment—as lazy, as an ingrate, as a spoiled brat unable to balance his academics and the carefree life of a major college quarterback.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • This form of rebellion journalism makes Martin seem an accusatory ingrate rather than an artist with a personal vision whose endeavors are worthy of respect.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • One of the most intriguing threads in the book concerns the woman’s ingrate of a daughter, to whom the Cheffe nonetheless kowtows, sending love in her child’s direction even when that child undermines her in every way.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Nevertheless, in the summer of 1922 literary friends passed the hat to provide financing for the notorious ingrate’s next adventure.
    — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Outside of the fake news or politically motivated ingrates, people are now starting to recognize the amazing work that has been done by FEMA and our great military.
    — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2017

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