How to Use ingrained in a Sentence

ingrained

adjective

• These attitudes are very deeply ingrained in the culture.
• Working on the trains is an ingrained part of her life.
  — Katie Herchenroeder, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
• On the verge of turning 40, all my habits felt ingrained.
  — Liza Monroy, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Those words, the book titles, and R.L. Stine’s name were sort of ingrained in our minds.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• The details of each are ingrained in his mind, even more than a decade later.
  — Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The problems of young kids are sweeping and deeply ingrained.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2020
• Huawei is deeply ingrained in countries like the U.K. and Germany.
  — WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• The heat is deeply ingrained in the walls and atmosphere, inescapable to all those who come here.
  — Richard Quest, CNN, 8 May 2023
• In the Handbook of The Working Adult, the two-week rule is as ingrained as the ban on tuna fish lunches.
  — Diego Wyatt, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2021
• The shoemakers have always been deeply ingrained in the sport.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2022
• Google also has the deeply ingrained behavior of the masses to fall back on.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• The tech is so ingrained that even memory loss can’t take it away.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
• The buffet takes most of the ingrained fears and behaviors of the pandemic and turns them on their heads.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• The crux of the issue lies in the deeply ingrained belief that constant hustle is the only growth path.
  — John Jarosz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• And the idea of aperitivo, the French apéro, is so ingrained in my culture.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2021
• The Bengals are ingrained in your identity and a source of pride and self-esteem.
  — The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2022
• Think for a second how ingrained bread is in our culture.
  — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
• One of the appeals of camping and exploring the outdoors is the chance to let go of a lot of ingrained routines.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• The features of that firmly ingrained culture are well known.
  — Neil Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• The idea is that all the advance work will become so ingrained that instinct takes over during the shoot.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• The food courts have gained a cult-like following over the years and become ingrained in pop culture.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2021
• Alexa remains too ingrained within the Amazon brand to fade into the night.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• And maybe this is just ingrained in me, but that’s what was told to us: Outsiders have bad intentions.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The parish is deeply ingrained into their lives and families.
  — Rick Rojas, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• First, there is often a tendency to get mired and deeply ingrained in your life’s work.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• There’s a lot of stuff you get told, that gets really ingrained into you, that’s not true.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• At this point, in the social-media age, it’s become ingrained into the game.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Next to his head hangs a rough blue curtain with an ingrained smell of cigarette smoke.
  — David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
• While technical aspects of first aid need to be taught and practiced, the instinct to help others in distress is deeply ingrained in human nature.
  — Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
• Black History Month is simply too ingrained now to cancel, Miletsky said.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025