How to Use innate in a Sentence

innate

adjective

• She has an innate sense of rhythm.
• In the face of such evil, there is an innate call to action.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 13 Aug. 2019
• A lot of us aren't born with innate style, and that's okay.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• For most nurses, the urge to care for and tend to others is innate.
  — chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The innate immune system is the very first line of defense.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
• In part because of our innate desire to make sense of chaos.
  — Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• That, and a great striker’s innate knowledge of where the goal was.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2020
• The best footballers have an innate ability to read a play and be in the right place at the right time.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2012
• That innate feeling of being trapped in a female body tugged at the back of my mind.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• Something my father gave me is an innate sense of faith and trust.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
• And so some of his wisdom is innate, and then some of it is also learned.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• Trudy always brought a smile to all who knew her with her quick wit and innate kindness.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 12 July 2018
• The faculty for myth is innate in the human race.
  — W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
• This is an innate law of the universe which can never be broken.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2017
• The extent to which songs are learned or innate is a cutting-edge question to this day.
  — Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Part of Looney’s court awareness is rooted in an innate feel for the game.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• What is the origin of the innate feeling shared by so many of us that prompts us to keep bringing up this topic?
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 9 May 2018
• What may seem innate to you as a founder might not be obvious to each member of your team.
  — Sean Cantwell, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• But chefs and designers are also drawn to the innate charms of the city, whose roots go back thousands of years.
  — Sara Clemence Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Fish produce the same opioids—the body’s innate painkillers—that mammals do.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
• Both roles require an innate kinship with that sort of humor.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2021
• The cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove vibe with your innate warmth.
  — Catherine Urban, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2019
• The body's innate clock and the environmental clock don't align.
  — Dr. Avish Jain, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• And with a close relative, there can be an innate sense of trust and transparency.
  — Hannah Baggenstoss, STAT, 6 Oct. 2022
• It is composed of the innate and adaptive immune systems.
  — USA Today, 9 June 2020
• His eye at the plate was refined sooner, but that was not innate, either.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Immersed in the history of Iran, as innate as the earth beneath our feet.
  — Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022
• To me, welcoming people in is so innate, and part of the fabric of this culture.
  — Luke Winkie, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
• Set weekly goals, then think bigger as time goes on and the routine becomes innate.
  — Alex Pollack, Bon Appetit, 14 Aug. 2017
• What Mac passed down to Ben is an innate ability to track down the football.
  — Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun, 18 July 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024