How to Use inveterate in a Sentence

inveterate

adjective

• Prairie voles are inveterate snugglers with their mates and their pups.
  — Florence Williams, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• So how to make this old warhorse gallop like the thoroughbreds that vex the inveterate gamblers in the show’s opening number?
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
• An inveterate reader, Helland died in his favorite chair, some of his many books at his side.
  — Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
• But Trump, an inveterate rule-breaker, is unlikely to be reined in by a dead mic as long as Biden is within 20 feet.
  — John M. Crisp Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• The exploits of Marsha Sprinkle — suitcase thief, con artist, inveterate liar — could have been a film.
  — Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
• McCarthy is an inveterate ham, so all this is cut with humor.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• The president, an inveterate TV watcher, could see the spot.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• In the age of oversharing, yachts are a final sanctum of secrecy, even for some of the world’s most inveterate talkers.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Staff Sergeant William James is an inveterate risk-taker who seems to thrive on war, but there's no denying his gift for defusing bombs.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• An inveterate TV watcher, Trump echoes Fox's fantasies in his own tweets and remarks.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• An inveterate shopper alights at a train station, finds no ride waiting, dumps her bags and starts walking.
  — Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• His newest project, called Four Lost Souls, covers some ground that's new even for an inveterate genre hopper such as Langford.
  — Joshua Miller, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017
• Yet if, somehow, the Yankees prevail, only the inveterate haters (of whom there are still many) will begrudge them the victory.
  — James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• Night after night, year after year, 1,500 people at a time sat next to a parade of inveterate carnivores with claws and sharp teeth.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• For the consummate deal-cutter, the inveterate angle-seeker, there was no play left.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Nor is this the wisest move for the Daiquiri drinkers, because the initial money would run out, and the shares of an inveterate beach bum are hardly an appealing investment.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• The second way that news organizations can meet the challenge of this moment is to stop booking those surrogates who are the worst of the inveterate liars.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Yes, Republicans did enact a tax cut that, for them, salvaged the year, and that had to be gratifying to the inveterate supply-sider Ryan.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Apr. 2018
• His father, Ronnie, was an inveterate con man, gambler and rogue.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
• Mark Joseph Stern explains how the inveterate weed-hater might go about making trouble for states where pot is becoming legal.
  — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
• How does an inveterate rock ‘n’ roller like Keith Richards deal with a pandemic thwarting his touring plans?
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
• Texans love their lake lake houses, inveterate escapes from the nearly-all-year scalding heat.
  — Becca Hensley, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2021
• Here, Ehrenreich speaks as an inveterate gym rat, a participant in the astonishing rise of the workout since the 1970s.
  — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• Trump has always been an inveterate gossip and clout-chaser.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2020
• But despite all of that progress, for as much as the tabletop sector seems to have shed its reputation as a sanctum of inveterate masculinity, the wargaming space hasn't caught up with the mean.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 5 June 2021
• Like me, an inveterate reader (and avowed feminist) who didn’t read women.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
• My dad was an inveterate gambler; that was very difficult.
  — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 May 2018
• Booker is, to some, an inveterate opportunist whose reach exceeds his grasp.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 4 June 2017
• The Rachmaninoff marathon also had a virtuosic appeal for Wang, an inveterate thrill-seeker who has learned to Jet Ski and dabbled in cryotherapy.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Years later, Denise learns that her dream man in Argentina is an inveterate womanizer.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024