How to Use indoctrinate in a Sentence

indoctrinate

verb

• The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.
• Parents are allowed to indoctrinate their children in all sorts of crazy ideas, and even put them through surgery.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2012
• My husband says it’s only one time and will not be enough time to indoctrinate our children.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2020
• Putting an end to her attempts to indoctrinate your toddler is as easy as hiring a babysitter.
  — Abigail Van Buren, al, 2 Sep. 2023
• These places have a lot of power over the people that became indoctrinated.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The College Board, the maker of the course, has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2023
• They hadn’t been indoctrinated by some left-wing group.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• The College Board has denied that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
• So to say my dad indoctrinated me is, well, a bit of an understatement.
  — Chuck Todd, The MMQB, 3 July 2017
• But parents who are complacent about many things will not sit by idly while their tax dollars are being used to indoctrinate them.
  — Michael Farris, National Review, 9 June 2021
• What was the right age to begin indoctrinating her daughter in feminism?
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 28 May 2018
• The College Board denies that the course indoctrinates students.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• Schools should breed critical thinking such that no book or lesson has the power to indoctrinate a worldview.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• Autocrats who plan to stay in power for ever need to indoctrinate children.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• People can go online and get just indoctrinated with with some of this messaging from across across the globe really.
  — John Shumway, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The tool has proved to be a popular way to indoctrinate students to global issues, Niazi said.
  — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Homemade treats We've all been indoctrinated that homemade is a no-no at trick or treat.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
• Children were more deeply indoctrinated with every year that passed.
  — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
• In the last six months, the Kremlin has ramped up its efforts to indoctrinate young Russians to support the war and government.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• This tells the researchers not only how well the robot is indoctrinating the subjects, but how chicks can vary in their acceptance of a fake mother.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2018
• But rather than try to indoctrinate a new era of fans into Super Troopers-dom, the movie just ends up calling back to the old.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Those are Democratic talking points being pushed to our schools to indoctrinate our kids, to become haters.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
• It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• This event is designed to indoctrinate and sexualise young children.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• Unless California tears up the curriculum and goes back to the drawing board, the course would indoctrinate and divide.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Supporters argued that the bill is needed to prevent classrooms from being used to indoctrinate children.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• Societies shape their children—and regimes indoctrinate them—through play.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Many have been carried out by women or children who were abducted and indoctrinated.
  — Haruna Umar, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• That's about a drone operator who came from a poor family, who is indoctrinated into the military and sold on it as a way out.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
• Kendi began to publish books for children and young adults—which fit with the right’s claim that woke progressives were trying to indoctrinate young people.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024