How to Use inveterate in a Sentence

inveterate

adjective
  • One of them is an inveterate liar who doesn't care about this country.
    — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
  • Prairie voles are inveterate snugglers with their mates and their pups.
    — Florence Williams, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • McCarthy is an inveterate ham, so all this is cut with humor.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • An inveterate shopper alights at a train station, finds no ride waiting, dumps her bags and starts walking.
    — Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • An inveterate reader, Helland died in his favorite chair, some of his many books at his side.
    — Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
  • As Swifties will know, Taylor Swift is an inveterate mom-meeter.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • As Swifties will know, Taylor Swift is an inveterate mom-meeter.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • As Swifties will know, Taylor Swift is an inveterate mom-meeter.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Booker is, to some, an inveterate opportunist whose reach exceeds his grasp.
    — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 4 June 2017
  • His father, Ronnie, was an inveterate con man, gambler and rogue.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Texans love their lake lake houses, inveterate escapes from the nearly-all-year scalding heat.
    — Becca Hensley, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2021
  • So how to make this old warhorse gallop like the thoroughbreds that vex the inveterate gamblers in the show’s opening number?
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • For the consummate deal-cutter, the inveterate angle-seeker, there was no play left.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • An inveterate schemer, he is said to be plotting both revenge and his political comeback.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the age of oversharing, yachts are a final sanctum of secrecy, even for some of the world’s most inveterate talkers.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The far-outside post doesn’t compromise this inveterate deep closer, but a lack of pace up front definitely will.
    — Teresa Genaro, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The exploits of Marsha Sprinkle — suitcase thief, con artist, inveterate liar — could have been a film.
    — Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
  • Penn captures the beating heart of an inveterate explorer, at its most self-deceiving but also at its bravest and boldest.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • How does an inveterate rock ‘n’ roller like Keith Richards deal with a pandemic thwarting his touring plans?
    — Neil Shah, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The governor, an inveterate backseat driver, is going to miss being behind the wheel.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And the military has a commensurate track record, with urgent and inveterate problems still far from resolved.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Mark Joseph Stern explains how the inveterate weed-hater might go about making trouble for states where pot is becoming legal.
    — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Yet if, somehow, the Yankees prevail, only the inveterate haters (of whom there are still many) will begrudge them the victory.
    — James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Staff Sergeant William James is an inveterate risk-taker who seems to thrive on war, but there's no denying his gift for defusing bombs.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • Unless just being an inveterate people-pleaser produces the same result.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The second way that news organizations can meet the challenge of this moment is to stop booking those surrogates who are the worst of the inveterate liars.
    — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Night after night, year after year, 1,500 people at a time sat next to a parade of inveterate carnivores with claws and sharp teeth.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Di Felice, an inveterate team player, also praised the Gaultier atelier teams for being so brilliant to work with.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 25 June 2024
  • Jeffries is an inveterate texter and typically responds to messages within an hour.
    — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • His newest project, called Four Lost Souls, covers some ground that's new even for an inveterate genre hopper such as Langford.
    — Joshua Miller, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017

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