How to Use instill in a Sentence

instill

verb

• My mom instilled in us to strip the bed and make the new bed every Sunday.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2024
• This city, rich in culture, instilled with pride, this place is more than just a pin on the map.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• But my job as one of the leaders is to help the guys and instill confidence in them still and have their back.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• The war helped instill in him the notion of the Catholic Church as a bulwark against evil that would prevail with God’s help.
  — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• But for many people, just having to look at them is enough to instill fear.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 16 June 2023
• Anahi Nava Flores, 17, said the meals instill a sense of self-worth.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• Chief among these is that head coach Ime Udoka was brought in to change the team’s culture and instill good habits.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The lessons of the Holocaust, and consequently the need for the Jewish state of Israel, were instilled in me at a young age.
  — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• That's one thing that was instilled in me, one place in life where there's no compromise.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• By Year 3, Dunn wants the Fever to instill a sense of fear into their opponents.
  — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
• His mother Afeni was a Black Panther and instilled a sense of activism in her son.
  — Stephanie Fasano, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• High schooler Anahi Nava Flores said the meals instill a sense of self-worth.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023
• He’s really stressed and is trying to instill that into Meghan, and then to Luke.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2023
• Ulrey hopes to get the best out of each one of his players and instill the confidence in them to go out and compete game in and game out.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2023
• This is all to instill confidence in other banks after SVB’s collapse, and to avoid any run on the banks.
  — Victor Ordonez, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Many also rattle chains or flick their whips to instill fear in the spectators.
  — Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
• The aim was to provide a service and instill a sense of security and trust in customers.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Neither their offense nor their defense should instill in the Browns.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• My energy comes from the spirit my parents instilled in me, as well as my faith.
  — Tara Klein, SPIN, 12 Apr. 2023
• His teacher, no less a figure than Aristotle, would have instilled in him a love of books.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Even falls that do not result in major injuries instill a sense of dread in some young workers.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The researchers instilled various doses of the dusky air-pollution liquid in some of the mice’s lungs.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• There's been a fond look all the way back to 1963 to see if some of the original Riviera magic could be instilled in this new rendition.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• My parents instilled in me and my three brothers a desire to serve others regardless of the task.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• So not only instill the focal point of the team, but to create turnovers, play fast, physical.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2023
• In 2014, Rohan told Rolling Stone that his father instilled in him a desire to make the world better for those who would come after him.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• Taking time to breathe slowly and limit distractions can lower the heart rate and instill a sense of calm.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 9 Jan. 2024
• But for the country’s rulers, the designation late last year capped an all-out push to instill some national pride in their beloved bean.
  — Nabih Bulosforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The argument on the right is that such subjects only serve to stoke racial tensions and instill shame in young Americans.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The first step was repainting the living room walls, which were a nondescript pale gray that lacked the dynamism Howell desired to instill in the place.
  — Molly Creeden, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024