How to Use ingratiate in a Sentence

ingratiate

verb

• One by one, the four ingratiate themselves as key cogs of the rich and naive Park family.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
• Their first moves did not ingratiate the new owners with fans.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The quickest way for Riley to ingratiate himself with his new fan base is to change those trends.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.
  — Fu Goto, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, the members of the Thursday Murder Club start to ingratiate themselves with key players in the case.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The move has been seen mostly as a way for the new leader to ingratiate himself to the Trump administration.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
• And this does not ingratiate him with Western governments and with the U.S. embassy.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2019
• And how did an ill-fated financier end up ingratiating himself to one of the world’s richest men?
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Since the outset of last season, Curry has cut down on his circus shots, in part to ingratiate Durant.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 June 2018
• People who attend get access to French bulldogs for 70 minutes, as well as bags of treats to ingratiate them, but there's something in it for the dogs, too.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
• Scenes like those from Thursday night certainly won’t ingratiate Allen with his new team or its fans.
  — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Would Dershowitz turn up, looking to ingratiate himself with the blue-state elite by buying a leftist baked good?
  — Christopher Bonanos, The Cut, 5 July 2018
• Phil Wong conjures a whole character, a needy, ingratiating student in the prison writing class, out of two words of script.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• A lot of fraudsters ingratiate themselves, and are very kind and thoughtful, and appear to be very sincere people.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• And Stormzy, age 29, hasn’t gone out of his way to ingratiate himself with U.S. audiences.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• His off-the-cuff remarks have not ingratiated him to everyone Wall Street.
  — Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
• In that film, the character attempts to ingratiate herself with the friends of her teen-age daughter by crossing boundaries.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
• This is her attempt to try to ingratiate her snakelike way into human form.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 8 Feb. 2018
• Jade isn’t the only gem that’s ingratiated itself into our hair-care routines of late.
  — Zoe Weiner, Allure, 27 July 2018
• The funding surge serves to partially confirm the claims from Trump and some of his allies that an indictment would only serve to further ingratiate him to his base.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
• No one admits that booking events there is an effort to ingratiate themselves with the president, but the look is at best unseemly.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 19 July 2019
• Even as a teenager in Florida, Rubin was inclined to quickly ingratiate with the group.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 July 2021
• All Simmons has done is make friends, ingratiate himself to the community and get better on the football field every year.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 July 2020
• Can a doll with an ingratiating smile, impossible curves and boobs ready for liftoff be a feminist icon?
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• At the same time, Mr. Guo was trying to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration.
  — Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• There is openly no reason for The Market to exist, other than to ingratiate an overreaching monolith to a public that no longer trusts it or likes it.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• Westbrook has tried hard to distribute the basketball and ingratiate himself into the offense as a third wheel behind James and Davis.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• While well-liked by many film and TV producers, Chapek has struggled to ingratiate himself in an industry of fragile egos.
  — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022
• The bird, without sauce, is an ingratiating bite, fragrant and slightly sweet with star anise, cinnamon, clove and cardamom.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the indictment, that effort is further described as using the social charms of DeGuzman’s wife to help ingratiate Francis to the official and his wife.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024