How to Use ingrained in a Sentence

ingrained

adjective
  • These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.
  • That may not be too practical, given how ingrained social media is in our society.
    Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Bars and restaurants are ingrained in our national culture and history.
    Jon Taffer, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But perhaps no tradition became as ingrained as Día de los Muertos.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The pandemic and recession showed just how ingrained politics was in what people saw, heard and believed.
    Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • So, by the late nineteen-nineties, our county was pretty ingrained with doing vote-by-mail elections and heavy absentee voting.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This problem is so deeply ingrained that Mukwende says one of the hardest parts of this project was just finding images of conditions on non-white skin.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • This might not snap people out of their belief in the QAnon megaverse, since their deep memetic frames are so ingrained in their identities.
    Whitney Phillips, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Working with flames to burn away undergrowth and bring nutrients and biodiversity back to lands is an ingrained part of their heritage.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Those moments don't live on a mantle or a trophy case, but they’ll be firmly ingrained in O’Ward’s psyche for the rest of his career.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2020
  • These cultural nuances, deeply ingrained in South Asians, could be hard for those from outside the community to grasp.
    Amanat Khullar, Quartz India, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Outside the chat, the fitness world was grappling with how to remedy its ingrained culture of exclusion following the death of George Floyd in May.
    SELF, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Those words, the book titles, and R.L. Stine’s name were sort of ingrained in our minds.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The details of each are ingrained in his mind, even more than a decade later.
    Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The heat is deeply ingrained in the walls and atmosphere, inescapable to all those who come here.
    Richard Quest, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • In the Handbook of The Working Adult, the two-week rule is as ingrained as the ban on tuna fish lunches.
    Diego Wyatt, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2021
  • The shoemakers have always been deeply ingrained in the sport.
    oregonlive, 14 July 2022
  • Google also has the deeply ingrained behavior of the masses to fall back on.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The tech is so ingrained that even memory loss can’t take it away.
    Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
  • The buffet takes most of the ingrained fears and behaviors of the pandemic and turns them on their heads.
    Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The crux of the issue lies in the deeply ingrained belief that constant hustle is the only growth path.
    John Jarosz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And the idea of aperitivo, the French apéro, is so ingrained in my culture.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The Bengals are ingrained in your identity and a source of pride and self-esteem.
    The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The features of that firmly ingrained culture are well known.
    Neil Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • The idea is that all the advance work will become so ingrained that instinct takes over during the shoot.
    New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The food courts have gained a cult-like following over the years and become ingrained in pop culture.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Alexa remains too ingrained within the Amazon brand to fade into the night.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And maybe this is just ingrained in me, but that’s what was told to us: Outsiders have bad intentions.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The parish is deeply ingrained into their lives and families.
    Rick Rojas, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • First, there is often a tendency to get mired and deeply ingrained in your life’s work.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022

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