How to Use entrain in a Sentence

entrain

verb
  • The music entrains our feet and hands to move in that rhythm.
    Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The artificial lights of a lab could also entrain their body clocks to the wrong daily rhythms, driving them to search for mates at the wrong time of the day.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
  • If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
    Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • And Pandora orbits inside Saturn's rings themselves, its meager gravity enough to entrain the particles in the thin F ring and keep it in place.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
  • Soon after, other studies by separate research teams showed that numerous species of parrots could entrain to a beat, as could elephants.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
  • At this height the Senna’s double diffuser is fully entrained (higher downforce and less drag) due to a phenomenon pilots know as ground effects.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Light is by far the most important factor that helps entrain, or synchronize, human circadian rhythms.
    WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Ticking away at the molecular level, the biological clock is entrained — or set — by exposure to sunlight and darkness.
    Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The blue clustering is an area of low correlation, meaning that there are unusual shapes in the atmosphere – in this case, tornadic debris, the remnants of people’s homes, vegetation, shrapnel, and anything else entrained in the vortex.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2017
  • But what Assaneo observed was rather more interesting and surprising, Poeppel said: The auditory and speech motor activities did stay entrained, but only up to about 5 hertz.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2018
  • As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
  • The music entrains our feet and hands to move in that rhythm.
    Simon Worrall, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The artificial lights of a lab could also entrain their body clocks to the wrong daily rhythms, driving them to search for mates at the wrong time of the day.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
  • If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.
    Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • And Pandora orbits inside Saturn's rings themselves, its meager gravity enough to entrain the particles in the thin F ring and keep it in place.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2011
  • Soon after, other studies by separate research teams showed that numerous species of parrots could entrain to a beat, as could elephants.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
  • The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
  • At this height the Senna’s double diffuser is fully entrained (higher downforce and less drag) due to a phenomenon pilots know as ground effects.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Light is by far the most important factor that helps entrain, or synchronize, human circadian rhythms.
    WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Ticking away at the molecular level, the biological clock is entrained — or set — by exposure to sunlight and darkness.
    Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The blue clustering is an area of low correlation, meaning that there are unusual shapes in the atmosphere – in this case, tornadic debris, the remnants of people’s homes, vegetation, shrapnel, and anything else entrained in the vortex.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2017
  • But what Assaneo observed was rather more interesting and surprising, Poeppel said: The auditory and speech motor activities did stay entrained, but only up to about 5 hertz.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2018
  • As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013

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