How to Use innate in a Sentence

innate

adjective

• She has an innate sense of rhythm.
• People have an innate impulse to overspend, experts said.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
• People have an innate desire to explain evil and misfortune, Barkun said.
  — David M. Zimmer, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
• That innate curiosity isn't the only thing driving your cat to send your wedding china crashing to the floor, though.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 June 2021
• There is an innate reverence for nature that is impossible for travelers not to feel.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2021
• With compassion comes the acknowledgment that everyone has innate value and deserves to be treated as an equal.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
• People with this placement often have a natural charisma and an innate ability to inspire others.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• Like breathing, the need for freedom is innate; our bodies are made to move, our minds are programmed to learn, and our hearts are constantly contracting and expanding.
  — Elizabeth Hawes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2021
• By contrast, passwordless logins authenticate with attributes that are innate and harder to steal, like biometrics.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 July 2021
• Paige's innate charm and gift for great side-eye help invest the viewer in the madness that surrounds Zola, while Keough matches her magnetism as the film's unpredictable agent of chaos.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 June 2021
• The rumors and stories, both about the Button Man and the missing campers, reflect an innate desire to find explanations for the inexplicable.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Even the data and his words belie his implication that these group differences are innate or a function of culture and not a product of discriminatory public policy.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• A lot of us aren't born with innate style, and that's okay.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• In the face of such evil, there is an innate call to action.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 13 Aug. 2019
• That, and a great striker’s innate knowledge of where the goal was.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2020
• For most nurses, the urge to care for and tend to others is innate.
  — chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The best footballers have an innate ability to read a play and be in the right place at the right time.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2012
• Part of Looney’s court awareness is rooted in an innate feel for the game.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• This is far from the first time that Adam Brody has praised his wife's innate goodness.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2024
• In part because of our innate desire to make sense of chaos.
  — Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• The innate immune system is the very first line of defense.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
• And so some of his wisdom is innate, and then some of it is also learned.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• That innate feeling of being trapped in a female body tugged at the back of my mind.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• Something my father gave me is an innate sense of faith and trust.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
• The extent to which songs are learned or innate is a cutting-edge question to this day.
  — Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Fish produce the same opioids—the body’s innate painkillers—that mammals do.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
• Trudy always brought a smile to all who knew her with her quick wit and innate kindness.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 12 July 2018
• But chefs and designers are also drawn to the innate charms of the city, whose roots go back thousands of years.
  — Sara Clemence Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Immersed in the history of Iran, as innate as the earth beneath our feet.
  — Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022
• What Mac passed down to Ben is an innate ability to track down the football.
  — Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun, 18 July 2017

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024