How to Use inure in a Sentence

inure

verb

• Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?
• This would inure to the benefit of customers and the workforce.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• However, Bloomberg has used his wealth in a way that could ultimately inure to his benefit.
  — Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• The mob is in front of the courthouse because we are inured to the unspoken reality that the Court is innately political.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• The deluges have overwhelmed rescuers and threatened even the most hardened residents inured to frequent snowstorms.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2023
• That discount will inure to the benefit of your beneficiaries, if the value of those assets rises.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Still back then, being the hottest thing ever did not inure you from certain prejudices, and certain indignities.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2022
• And while shock and sadness from the loss is palpable, the sheer frequency of the incidents has left financial markets largely inured to them, with fallout once measured in days now lasting just hours.
  — Laurence Arnold, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
• But even passengers inured to the T’s woeful recent performance struggle with the uncertainty of when things will improve.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• And investment banks, long inured to cultural change, are rapidly turning into Exhibit A on how the new technology could not only supplement but supplant entire ranks of workers.
  — Rob Copeland, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024