How to Use indoctrinate in a Sentence

indoctrinate

verb

• The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.
• The College Board, the maker of the course, has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2023
• But rather than try to indoctrinate a new era of fans into Super Troopers-dom, the movie just ends up calling back to the old.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Parents are allowed to indoctrinate their children in all sorts of crazy ideas, and even put them through surgery.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2012
• In the last six months, the Kremlin has ramped up its efforts to indoctrinate young Russians to support the war and government.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• The College Board has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
• My husband says it’s only one time and will not be enough time to indoctrinate our children.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2020
• The College Board denies that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• Putting an end to her attempts to indoctrinate your toddler is as easy as hiring a babysitter.
  — Abigail Van Buren, al, 2 Sep. 2023
• Homemade treats We've all been indoctrinated that homemade is a no-no at trick or treat.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
• They hadn’t been indoctrinated by some left-wing group.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• These places have a lot of power over the people that became indoctrinated.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• So to say my dad indoctrinated me is, well, a bit of an understatement.
  — Chuck Todd, The MMQB, 3 July 2017
• The tool has proved to be a popular way to indoctrinate students to global issues, Niazi said.
  — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Those are Democratic talking points being pushed to our schools to indoctrinate our kids, to become haters.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
• But parents who are complacent about many things will not sit by idly while their tax dollars are being used to indoctrinate them.
  — Michael Farris, National Review, 9 June 2021
• And come May 19, they, like the Middletons before them, will be forever indoctrinated as part of the British royal world.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 May 2018
• Their aim was to indoctrinate Muslim youth with an austere, rigid, and pristine vision of Islam.
  — Sohel Rana, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
• It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• Unless California tears up the curriculum and goes back to the drawing board, the course would indoctrinate and divide.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• An ovular on lesbian culture in 1976 caused such a stir that the school was accused of trying to indoctrinate students as lesbians and Marxists.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• This tells the researchers not only how well the robot is indoctrinating the subjects, but how chicks can vary in their acceptance of a fake mother.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2018
• With the entire vibe of the event contingent on the mind-space of those attendees, indoctrinating the new population into the ways of the Man is critical.
  — Janelle Brown, WIRED, 11 July 1997
• College Board has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2023
• Schools should breed critical thinking such that no book or lesson has the power to indoctrinate a worldview.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• People can go online and get just indoctrinated with with some of this messaging from across across the globe really.
  — John Shumway, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
• Kendi began to publish books for children and young adults—which fit with the right’s claim that woke progressives were trying to indoctrinate young people.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• What was the right age to begin indoctrinating her daughter in feminism?
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 28 May 2018
• Maybe a patrol boat found him, or perhaps someone, indoctrinated with the lesson of confessing false tales had given him up for the sake of themselves.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• That's about a drone operator who came from a poor family, who is indoctrinated into the military and sold on it as a way out.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024