How to Use inure in a Sentence

inure

verb

• Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?
• Maybe at this point I’m just inured to the idiocy of it all?
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
• This would inure to the benefit of customers and the workforce.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
• That has inured to the great detriment of the American People.
  — Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Although our incarceration rate leads the world, we’re inured to the irony that the land of the free is also the empire of the jailed.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Even in a city inured to violent crime, the murder of Officer Dols in 1997 was a shock.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• But the West has also become, to some extent, inured to the North Korean threat.
  — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2023
• Still, swings in the pound are becoming restrained as traders get inured to Brexit news.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Portis was by then mostly inured to the aura of celebrity.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Even in a country long inured to extreme violence, the killings shocked many Brazilians.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• And the astronauts themselves were, for the most part, inured to their mortality.
  — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Yet four or five blocks from the fighting, the group of men reacted to their captivity with placid resolve, inured to war’s chaos.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
• The paucity of loos on a mountain or moor is unavoidable, and to an extent one becomes inured to pulling down your pants in the countryside.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• To players who grew inured to playing deep into June, the next set of challenges might seem exciting.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• If Americans aren't afraid of the flu, perhaps that's because they are inured to yearly warnings.
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
• Americans are inured to the personnel drama in the White House—the factions and flameouts and new blood and walking wounded.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• The neighborhood that had the lightning raid, its city and perhaps even the whole country is becoming inured to crime, the residents tell us.
  — David Culver, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
• Neither free day care nor a night off from doing the dishes can inure her to how her child’s pain can, by shaping his identity, shape hers.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Three years after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub, the community gathers to honor the victims, the inured and the first responders.
  — Todd Stewart, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• In part, Amazon has inured itself to pressure from Wall Street by ignoring it.
  — Michael Corkery and Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• City dwellers are inured to the violence on the evening news, but an unexplained disappearance in a place that’s supposed to be a safe retreat?
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2020
• Vaulting a few women of color to the top gives the beauty standard a progressive sheen that helps inure it from criticism.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• An attendee at the campaign stop was killed and two others were seriously inured.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• There’s something about these people’s experiences that has inured them to like the spilling of blood, and the spilling of blood is very talismanic for them and sort of meaningful.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Feb. 2025
• The long-time Tennessee whiskey purveyor noted that its strong brand portfolio and investment inured it from the cost of the tariffs.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 5 June 2019
• Meanwhile, the dollar’s steady rise has stalled in recent weeks, with strategists suggesting that investors are becoming inured to the trade fight.
  — David Hodari, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Yet the risk of becoming inured to this farce constitutes a separate danger.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• Of course, audiences can grow overwhelmed, tired, or inured to these photos and videos—and, indeed, that increasingly seems to be happening as the war drags on.
  — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2023
• However, Bloomberg has used his wealth in a way that could ultimately inure to his benefit.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019