How to Use innate in a Sentence

innate

adjective
  • She has an innate sense of rhythm.
  • This is far from the first time that Adam Brody has praised his wife's innate goodness.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Our innate desire for happiness as refracted through the lens of consumerism?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
  • NKs are part of the innate immune system, in scientific terms.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Previous efforts to harness the power of the innate immune system haven’t worked out.
    NBC News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Even Daisy, who gets the meatiest arc by far, feels defined more by the challenges of her home life than some innate sense of personality.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
  • This is an innate immune response that is generalized and doesn’t require prior memory of the viral invader.
    NBC News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Excellence on the field may be the team’s goal, but what makes members of The Marching Storm winners already is their innate ability to be there for one another.
    Candace McDuffie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Cincinnati’s franchise quarterback says his innate ability to make decisions with no hesitation is a direct result of his preparation.
    Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 18 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • What is the origin of the innate feeling shared by so many of us that prompts us to keep bringing up this topic?
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 9 May 2018
  • This is an innate law of the universe which can never be broken.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2017
  • To have a sense of place equates to a sense of scale, a merging with the natural landscape, the innate sense of things feeling right.
    Joe Passov, WSJ, 15 June 2022
  • The two satellite companies, which have struggled in recent years due to cord-cutting and their innate inability to offer broadband services, have discussed coming together several times over the years.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024

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