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
• Watching him trot around the globe week to week engendered only the warmest of envies.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 9 June 2018
• This boot engenders confidence in the far reaches of the backcountry and tours like a dream.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• One of the surest ways to engender respect from white people the unmelanated is to die.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
• And think of the goodwill that Temple would engender if a certain board chair paid for it.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• But that comes with the caveat that engendering reader trust is sometimes about playing the long game.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• Saunders said he isn't surprised by the outpouring of good will engendered by the video.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• 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 remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire.
  — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• That’s spreading kindness to engender the kind of kindness that helps shape chaos.
  — Gary Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022
• Guarding it in the way Kennedy did can help engender respect for the dignity of others.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• But a union-organizing drive can fall short and still engender change.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• The dialogue that this has engendered is mind-boggling.
  — Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• And that will engender in some people's minds, folks to be violent.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The software design team that engendered the iPhone would change that forever.
  — Brian Merchant, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• That deeper connection can help to engender more commitment to you and their work.
  — Avery Blank, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• The measure engendered nary a negative word either at the hearing or from the broader public.
  — Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
• Dorsey has done some good things in the offseason, which should engender some confidence.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Potato pierogies with peach butter prompt none of the usual joy that dumplings engender.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• The problem is that this sort of bombast engenders more dangerous opinions about women in the workplace.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The Holy Week Uprising engendered a great deal of fear.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
• But both movies engendered strong cult followings and there were rumblings of a third installment.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• The idea is to mimic starvation to engender positive changes in brain chemistry.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• 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
• The real measure of success will be whether these protests engender meaningful change beyond the red carpet.
  — Karen Yossman, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024