How to Use engender in a Sentence

engender

verb

• The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
• Why not scrabble around in the lives of the folks who engender them?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
• The party’s fear of bold ideas engenders a public fear of the same.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
• This will engender a new era in global golf, for the better.
  — Town & Country, 6 June 2023
• And think of the goodwill that Temple would engender if a certain board chair paid for it.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• One of the surest ways to engender respect from white people the unmelanated is to die.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
• The remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire.
  — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• All the choices the Texans have made since the end of the season, with very few exceptions, do not engender trust.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
• The Holy Week Uprising engendered a great deal of fear.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
• Watching him trot around the globe week to week engendered only the warmest of envies.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 9 June 2018
• The approach was inspired by the Black Panthers and sought to mend the divisions engendered by gang life.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• This boot engenders confidence in the far reaches of the backcountry and tours like a dream.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• Saunders said he isn't surprised by the outpouring of good will engendered by the video.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• But that comes with the caveat that engendering reader trust is sometimes about playing the long game.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• Snow White and the Huntsman director, and, due to the horror this engendered, was banished from the sequel.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• Guarding it in the way Kennedy did can help engender respect for the dignity of others.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• In the season opener, Ohio State’s offensive line was one of the few places that engender pessimism.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
• That’s spreading kindness to engender the kind of kindness that helps shape chaos.
  — Gary Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022
• And that will engender in some people's minds, folks to be violent.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The crossover between sports and music, that’s sort of engendered in each other.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
• The idea that anyone could love books as much as the thief even appeared to engender a certain empathy.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
• The software design team that engendered the iPhone would change that forever.
  — Brian Merchant, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• That Trump said untrue things about a focal point of his plan also does not engender confidence in the rest of the measures.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020
• But a union-organizing drive can fall short and still engender change.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• But the bout of inflation that has spread through global economies in the past two years also stems partly from those policies and the supply shocks engendered by the virus.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• The reader doesn't need this column as a mirror to reflect your own feelings of pride and hope that these young women and men engender in all of us.
  — Steve West, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Potato pierogies with peach butter prompt none of the usual joy that dumplings engender.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Dorsey has done some good things in the offseason, which should engender some confidence.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The dialogue that this has engendered is mind-boggling.
  — Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• But despite Jones' legal woes, Holmes said that the culture he's helped engender has gotten a lot bigger.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Apr 2024