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
  • State of play: I have been indoctrinated into the world of Boat Tram.
    Claire Reilly, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • For Putin, the specter of Nazis has provided a way to indoctrinate the nation, to insist that Ukraine has no right to exist.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Already indoctrinated into the crime world, William quickly finds a place in Fisk’s crime crew.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • He was indoctrinated into the cult of the Kim family, as all North Koreans are.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 June 2024
  • 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
  • The latest looks to be indoctrinated into the laundry list of niche style aesthetics?
    Channing Smith, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • 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

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