How to Use ingratiate in a Sentence

ingratiate

verb
  • Their first moves did not ingratiate the new owners with fans.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.
    — Fu Goto, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • If true, calling their most beloved player around a saint is one way to ingratiate herself with her hosts.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 May 2017
  • And her penchant of baking helped ingratiate her to the Chiefs team.
    — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is her attempt to try to ingratiate her snakelike way into human form.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 8 Feb. 2018
  • One by one, the four ingratiate themselves as key cogs of the rich and naive Park family.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The quickest way for Riley to ingratiate himself with his new fan base is to change those trends.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But after a few plays, Scott ingratiates himself into your psyche in a third-grade crush kind of way.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Reporters would infiltrate and ingratiate in search of scoops.
    — Jon Landau, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Jade isn’t the only gem that’s ingratiated itself into our hair-care routines of late.
    — Zoe Weiner, Allure, 27 July 2018
  • Scenes like those from Thursday night certainly won’t ingratiate Allen with his new team or its fans.
    — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Can a doll with an ingratiating smile, impossible curves and boobs ready for liftoff be a feminist icon?
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • A lot of fraudsters ingratiate themselves, and are very kind and thoughtful, and appear to be very sincere people.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The shot was redirected home by Marchment, ingratiating him with his new chums.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Those moments all trace back to Ohtani’s ability to ingratiate himself with his new teammates this year.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In a matter of days, Adam ingratiates himself with each member of the Tanner clan.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In that film, the character attempts to ingratiate herself with the friends of her teen-age daughter by crossing boundaries.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
  • But Stephen is really smart and has managed to ingratiate himself with Evan.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His off-the-cuff remarks have not ingratiated him to everyone Wall Street.
    — Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
  • No one admits that booking events there is an effort to ingratiate themselves with the president, but the look is at best unseemly.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 19 July 2019
  • Since the outset of last season, Curry has cut down on his circus shots, in part to ingratiate Durant.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • Phil Wong conjures a whole character, a needy, ingratiating student in the prison writing class, out of two words of script.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • When the ingratiating Abby attempts to smooth things over by making a comment about the wine, Greer snaps.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The social media content showcased his wry sense of humor alongside his wrestling prowess that ingratiated him to his friends.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Epstein wasn’t merely trying to ingratiate himself to amass money and power.
    — Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That has led to criticism that Amazon was ponying up such a huge some as a way to ingratiate the company with the Trumps.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • All Simmons has done is make friends, ingratiate himself to the community and get better on the football field every year.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 July 2020
  • The Wittmers are adventurous, good-natured, and eager to ingratiate themselves with their hosts.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Even as a teenager in Florida, Rubin was inclined to quickly ingratiate with the group.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • Peter Angelos, who died at 94 years old last month, also said all the right things in those early days to ingratiate himself with fans.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024

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