How to Use inure in a Sentence

inure

verb
  • That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The pain is felt on both sides, although the Kremlin appears to be inured to it.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This would inure to the benefit of customers and the workforce.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Still, swings in the pound are becoming restrained as traders get inured to Brexit news.
    — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Even in a country long inured to extreme violence, the killings shocked many Brazilians.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That has inured to the great detriment of the American People.
    — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • And the astronauts themselves were, for the most part, inured to their mortality.
    — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Neither free day care nor a night off from doing the dishes can inure her to how her child’s pain can, by shaping his identity, shape hers.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To players who grew inured to playing deep into June, the next set of challenges might seem exciting.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • Yet four or five blocks from the fighting, the group of men reacted to their captivity with placid resolve, inured to war’s chaos.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Soaps had become Mary’s panacea, inuring her to her everyday hardships.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Too many false alarms can inure people to warnings and render alarms less effective when a disaster does occur.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Yet the risk of becoming inured to this farce constitutes a separate danger.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • If Americans aren't afraid of the flu, perhaps that's because they are inured to yearly warnings.
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The paucity of loos on a mountain or moor is unavoidable, and to an extent one becomes inured to pulling down your pants in the countryside.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • However, Bloomberg has used his wealth in a way that could ultimately inure to his benefit.
    — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Vaulting a few women of color to the top gives the beauty standard a progressive sheen that helps inure it from criticism.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But the West has also become, to some extent, inured to the North Korean threat.
    — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In part, Amazon has inured itself to pressure from Wall Street by ignoring it.
    — Michael Corkery and Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • City dwellers are inured to the violence on the evening news, but an unexplained disappearance in a place that’s supposed to be a safe retreat?
    — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The neighborhood that had the lightning raid, its city and perhaps even the whole country is becoming inured to crime, the residents tell us.
    — David Culver, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Still back then, being the hottest thing ever did not inure you from certain prejudices, and certain indignities.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the dollar’s steady rise has stalled in recent weeks, with strategists suggesting that investors are becoming inured to the trade fight.
    — David Hodari, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
  • That discount will inure to the benefit of your beneficiaries, if the value of those assets rises.
    — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Get our daily newsletter Even for a public inured to garish politics, events of late have proved worrying.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Police initially said there were 10 people inured in the shooting and later revised the number.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If a warning system sends out too many alerts, that could inure people to hearing them and result in complacency when a major earthquake does occur.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Even in a city inured to violent crime, the murder of Officer Dols in 1997 was a shock.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Of course, audiences can grow overwhelmed, tired, or inured to these photos and videos—and, indeed, that increasingly seems to be happening as the war drags on.
    — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2023
  • There’s something about these people’s experiences that has inured them to like the spilling of blood, and the spilling of blood is very talismanic for them and sort of meaningful.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Feb. 2025

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