How to Use inborn in a Sentence

inborn

adjective

• That kind of knowledge is acquired, not inborn.
• She has an inborn talent for music.
• Monkeys, on the other hand, are stuck with an inborn set of hoots and screams.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
• There’s an inborn scrappiness to Beard, the 48-year old Texas basketball coach, and Ramey, the 22-year-old Texas guard.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Nov. 2021
• There is no doubt of Petrenko’s inborn mastery of the art of conducting.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The entire industry of baby-proofing grows out of their inborn need to touch, see, taste, and experience the world around them.
  — Samantha Boardman, Marie Claire, 30 May 2019
• This is important, since humans have an inborn hunger for good stories.
  — Diane Stopyra, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
• Chloe might not master sarcasm until her teen years, but her inborn knack for language is already clear.
  — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018
• The disavowal of our inborn circadian rhythms, brought on by a 24-hour lifestyle lit by neon and fueled by caffeine, also bears part of the blame.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2012
• For that matter, Baranski works wonders at conveying the inborn disdain Agnes has for people like the Russells, even when the scripts portray them as more or less the same.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
• Some of it might be inborn biology, drawn from genetics or age.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• Chua credits her children’s success to the parenting techniques and not to some inborn abilities.
  — Guest, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2011
• Ministers in Emerson’s circles espoused inborn goodness and a knowledge of God at birth.
  — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Research has also long shown that bigotry is not an inborn human trait, but rather something learned from our environments, Byrd says.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• Rather, perhaps via some inborn genetic quirk, her cells had found a way to naturally repel the pathogen’s assaults instead.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• Resilience is not an inborn trait, though some people appear better prepared than others.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The convert is taken first by impulse, the inborn instinct toward the supernatural, the soul’s longing for purpose.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 4 Nov. 2019
• The author of those words has since recanted, and experts are increasingly coming to view happiness as a talent, not an inborn trait.
  — David Futrelle, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
• But they’re often treated like inborn traits, skills more likely to be won in a genetic lottery than cultivated in a classroom.
  — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• To mistake such good fortune for inborn ability is to ignore the existence of history.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2017
• Bird gut microbiomes might have more to do with their environment than the inborn, consistent relationship that is seen in most mammal species.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• But egg complexion is usually an inborn trait; hoopoes are unusual in their ability to alter those hues after the shell’s taken shape.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Any portrayal of gay men as a lab-pure reduction of maleness—whether inborn or socially constructed—is too simple.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
• Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 June 2023
• Making no attempt to disguise how slender and boyish Hal is, Chalamet effortlessly conveys the air of inborn command that hangs around the heir to the throne no matter how young and dissolute.
  — Kenneth Turan, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• French women have an inborn talent for recognizing quality and buying things that last.
  — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2017
• That, Hall thinks, is the real nutrition mystery: What factors, for some people, might be acting to override the body’s inborn satiety mechanisms that otherwise keep our eating in check?
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2019
• Some people have power, speed, and good hand-eye coordination, whereas others may have an inborn sense of rhythm or the ability to analyze patterns.
  — Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Yet in the long history of immunology, the concept of inborn resistance against infection is a fairly new and esoteric one.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
• That willingness to interact peacefully with others, even strangers, is inborn.
  — Richard Wrangham, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019

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