How To Use Ingrained In A Sentence

Each day we make countless choices and live out deeply ingrained habits that all add up to a lifestyle. Christianity Today
Be aware of ingrained attitudes. Times, Sunday Times
It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
In their eyes, nothing less than a cultural revolution was needed to purge the Chinese people of some of their most ingrained habits and cherished values.
None of us would want pessimism to become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times

It is difficult for a 'solo' biker to learn to ride because ingrained habits must be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
He was there because of another ingrained habit. Times, Sunday Times
From an early age they have a competitive environment in which skills become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
The church can't really back away from the use of the term Mormon, given the ingrained history of the term and resources the church used to establish it. ScrippsNews
None of these things are terrible, of course, but they do speak of certain ingrained attitudes towards women.
Such ingrained prejudices cannot be corrected easily.
Whilst he bathed and got rid of all that ingrained coal dust from his body she would be preparing a dinner.
Urgent action is necessary to purge both banks and bankers of their deeply ingrained dishonesty and greed. Times, Sunday Times
but then the possessiveness and competition, ingrained in us from early childhood, from preschool even, is like a thorn in our side which pricks every time a foreigner is seen.
As I say, this has gone on for about three weeks and, please God, the two actions are now ingrained habits.
It is a quality that has become ingrained since the trauma of their relegation. Times, Sunday Times
This, he explains, would analyse our make-do-and-mend culture, our suspicion of the bravely new, our ingrained preference for the status quo.
Because my boss was steeped in that culture it became ingrained in me as well. Times, Sunday Times
Their presence points also to a well-known Ciceronian phrase "Duce virtute comite Fortuna" (Fortune follows the tracks of Virtue), whose message is quite literally ingrained in the architecture of the studioli (Cicero Ad familiares 10.3, I.V. #CLVIII. 27). Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Irish financials have seriously underperformed due to ingrained scepticism on the part of some international investors about the Irish economy's ability to avoid a crash.
It would also run against deeply ingrained habits of discretion. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
None of us would want pessimism to become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
He sat there surrounded by filth - thick ingrained dirt.
A lifestyle of heavy drinking became ingrained, and was made worse by his working environment, where boozy lunches were the norm.
My dad ingrained it in me. The Sun
The belief that you should own your house is deeply ingrained in British society.
Having conducted interviews with friends from her former life, I have established that it is in large part a matter of ingrained habit.
Its interior is ingrained with dirt. Times, Sunday Times
The lowly status of the engineer is ingrained in our culture. Times, Sunday Times
Many Danes have a deeply ingrained scepticism about the European Union, seen as the bureaucratic and inefficient blueprint for a European superstate.
The lowly status of the engineer is ingrained in our culture. Times, Sunday Times
A face has no character unless it moves, and the fleeting emotions animate the ingrained ones, the battle-damage - lines, bags, wrinkles.
It also suggests ways for teachers to deal with any ingrained attitudes amongst pupils, through role plays and discussion groups.
Human rights groups say that this abuse is ingrained in prison culture. Times, Sunday Times
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Are you absolutely sure your faith in Trinitarian theology isn't the result of deeply ingrained Group Think? Blind Faith?
He viewed my role in our relationship as the underdog, without realizing, it was ingrained into him all his life. His attitude was his decision would be first and mine second.
The claim is that in use, The Putting Arc will quickly teach correct body movements, while at the same time ‘unteaching’ ingrained bad ones.
In fact, such ingrained public cynicism is misplaced. Times, Sunday Times
[2] Relating to old or established pattern; habitual, ingrained [3] (as a noun) an atavist is a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations (see Wikipedia entry for a more detailed explanation). Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
He brought all his phobias and complexes to his film-making and whatever ingrained attitudes he had about women were also hauled along.
He was there because of another ingrained habit. Times, Sunday Times
So just as we must shake such ingrained, patriarchic theories in animal biology, we must also reconsider the models we have for thinking about, understand, and relate to information in the flow of activity streams. What can dogs tell us about the real-time web? | FactoryCity
It is very hard to go against ingrained traditions that reap new harvests with a cycle of generations, over and over, until it is almost part of the should be.
I could never be as Italian as those teenagers on their Vespas whom I saw each summer, whose identity was so ingrained they didn't even know it was there.
It is taking a long time to shake off the attitudes that became ingrained then. Times, Sunday Times
It was just that when it came to getting around the city, even to the local paper shop, he had one simple, ingrained habit - reach for the car keys.
The objects of loathing may be topical – one person reviles "blogosphere", another "staycation" – but the loathing itself is ingrained. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
Though sometimes overt, racism is usually covert, but is deeply ingrained in professional and institutional practices.
But historically speaking, this reverence for language is deeply ingrained and persistent.
The associative guilt was ingrained in his soul.
An article in the April 5 issue reminds us how deeply ingrained collectivist habits of thought are in this country.
It is an ingrained ability to operate very well at the small group level on frequently unstructured problems in relatively low-tempo environments.
By contrast, business intelligence and action lag behind the current business activity if business processes are ingrained in rigid and brittle software systems.
The value proposition was ingrained from an early age. Times, Sunday Times
This process manifests itself in a certain attitude that seems to be ingrained in a disproportionate number of Scottish acts.
`Able was I ere I saw Elba "was ingrained in every schoolchild 's mind. A DEAD LIBERTY
I truly believe that attitudes like these lead to deeper-ingrained stereotypes, stereotypes that entrench our world in disaccord and intolerance. Uptown girl
So ingrained is the reflex of contention that even seemingly unobjectionable ideas provoke it.
Pieces are delicately crafted, with full use made of the wonderful texture and colours ingrained in the wood.
If Kotex succeeds in chipping away even a little at this deeply ingrained mortification, they're doing something a lot better than make a groovier tampon or hipper panty liner. Susan Kim: How to Advertise Down There
How ingrained in the plenipotentiaries was their proneness for what, for want of a better word, may be termed conspirative and circuitous action may be inferred from the record of their official and unofficial conversations and acts. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
The major difficulty you face is the ingrained belief that there are only two viable political parties in existence.
The suggestions they were given upturned all their ingrained beliefs and habits. Positive Parent Power
The belief that one should work hard is ingrained in our culture.
The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people.
Letters were an addiction; memorialising the past an ingrained habit.
Some of these cultures are due to national behaviours but some are also due to ingrained institutional or corporate behaviours.
By concentrating on selflessness you will overcome ingrained misunderstanding of the nature of people and things, which is the root of the round of repeated birth, aging, sickness, and death what Buddhists call cyclic existence, and you will attain liberation from suffering. Becoming Enlightened
The magic is in the detail of his observation, revealing more about ingrained attitudes with a sentence than a volume of social studies.
For those bastions of morality and exceptionalism we call the First World have realized that war is as old as humankind itself, and as profitable as well, for the violence that creates war is ingrained into our instincts, embedded into the most violent species the planet has ever evolved. Holocaust Redux
The belief that we should do our duty is deeply ingrained in most of us.
These traits are ingrained and stable dispositions to respond to certain situations in particular ways characteristic of the personality.
For those who know him, his ingrained indecisiveness serves as a signature to his every act; and to the uninitiated, it is explained away as cautiousness and age-inspired prudence.
My strongest belief is that such a trait is ingrained into our nature as human beings.
The suggestions they were given upturned all their ingrained beliefs and habits. Positive Parent Power
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There are few things more firmly ingrained than one's belief system.
And yet beneath the jollity is a deeply ingrained insecurity that leaves her feeling unloved and unwanted. Times, Sunday Times
For those bastions of morality and exceptionalism we call the First World have realized that war is as old as humankind itself, and as profitable as well, for the violence that creates war is ingrained into our instincts, embedded into the most violent species the planet has ever evolved. Holocaust Redux
Its interior is ingrained with dirt. Times, Sunday Times
The belief that one should work hard is ingrained in our culture.
The smell of cigar smoke was ingrained in his clothes, and his breath was beery. LOST SUMMER
Such ingrained habits appear to rely on a brain region called the striatum. What are memories made of?
To us, the long-time sun-dried, thirsty emigrants; covered from head to foot with dust from the Black Hills, overlaid with alkali powder from the Humboldt, veneered with ashes of the desert; all ingrained by weeks of dermatic absorption, rubbed in by the wear of travel, polished by the friction of the wind -- to us said the Truckee, flowing Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
Murkowski has tried to make an issue of Miller's seeming abandonment of the "gentleman" part of the "officer and gentleman" training ingrained in graduates of the U.S. AlaskaDispatch.com: Joe Miller Admits To Lying, But Do Alaskans Care?
What this highlights is the ingrained stigmatisation within the media around disability issues. Brown’s handwriting highlights the ingrained disability discrimination in society « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
The banisters were painted in white gloss and ingrained with dirt.
The models usually last around three scenes before ingrained dirt and cracked limbs make them rather unphotogenic.
Because we talked earlier about how if you pulled an opinion and you see more evidence to the contrary, your opinion becomes more ingrained. Smithsonian Mag
But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry.
So the only thing keeping the reporters in line is their ingrained habit of deference towards a wartime president.
But the Winchester is a habit more deeply ingrained than even Shaun's daily stop for a soda, and the pub will not let him leave without a fight. Shaun of the Dead
It is taking a long time to shake off the attitudes that became ingrained then. Times, Sunday Times
It is the working ejection seat that is so deeply ingrained in the consciousness of people about my age. Times, Sunday Times
They learn ways of working with low mood or dysphoric feelings that are different from the more automatic ways often ingrained in depressed people.
The deeply ingrained incursive life-style of the Cayuses had kept their numbers small.
However, I believe that a visit by a town dweller to a game fair would challenge ingrained attitudes.
That habit now seems ingrained and things that would have been luxuries to previous generations are now viewed as essentials. Times, Sunday Times
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Because we talked earlier about how if you pulled an opinion and you see more evidence to the contrary, your opinion becomes more ingrained. Smithsonian Mag
Morals tend to be deeply ingrained.
The belief that you should own your house is deeply ingrained in British society.
‘Social workers need training so that ingrained prejudices are not acted out,’ Ms Fay said.
He saw no need to rebrand the image and it is unlikely that he could have done so even if he had since the persona he had assumed from the beginning was too deeply ingrained.
Paint was peeling, floors had ingrained dirt, and all of the telephone rooms - very important for detainees' contact with the outside world - were in a disgraceful state.
From ingrained habit he paused to straighten up the bed.
The expectation of jeremiad is so deeply ingrained in Americans’ political consciousness that it might seem to be universal. How America Can Rise Again
The lowly status of the engineer is ingrained in our culture. Times, Sunday Times
Psycopaths or sociopaths are not mad, they have personality disorders which cannot be cured as they are ingrained into a person's psyche.
Patience is a virtue deeply ingrained in the sheikh. Times, Sunday Times
It is the working ejection seat that is so deeply ingrained in the consciousness of people about my age. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the fact that the baby/infant/young child has little to no concept of gender, be it personal gender or even the concept of gender at large, he/she is already being bombarded with gender-specific stereotypes and imagery, so that by the point in developmental psychological that gender DOES start emerging, these pre-defined images are already solidly ingrained. Women Audiences, Women Characters
And this idea has become so ingrained in the American mind that it will be difficult to gain credence for the assertion that the terms constitutionalism and absolutism represent the forces or systems which, have really been antagonistic ever since Christianity began to affect and animate social and political relations. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
Too many attitudes will have become ingrained, too many old moral precepts will have disappeared.
Materialism begins to fade and a newly awakened spirituality loosens the grip of ingrained beliefs and ideology.
These traits are ingrained and stable dispositions to respond to certain situations in particular ways characteristic of the personality.
It must buck centuries - old, deeply ingrained Japanese customs.
Internal stains in teeth, for example tetracycline stains, are extremely resistant to bleaching because the stain is so deeply ingrained in the teeth.
The title betrayed an ingrained antipathy towards the music industry that would hallmark his career.
It will only become a drawback if the habits of partisanship have become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles. Chapter 2
He moved quietly up the stained stone stoop; impressions of dead leaves and ingrained dirt gave the granite stairway a pepper-like color.
So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
It is the working ejection seat that is so deeply ingrained in the consciousness of people about my age. Times, Sunday Times
It would also run against deeply ingrained habits of discretion. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people.
I think on all the times he touched me, on all the times I came so close to giving myself to him, held back only by deeply ingrained ideas of right and wrong.
It seems that negative moods are now an ingrained habit. Times, Sunday Times
Companies have ingrained practices and fairly frozen allocations of marketing funds.
And the musicianship is so ingrained that it's inseparable from the fact of her: she's not "being" a gospel singer, she's not "being" a blues guitarist, she's at the point where she's just being. Ora labora
His Southern Baptist upbringing was still too ingrained.
The term points to a destructive narrative that has become sadly ingrained in our culture: the notion that blacks who are too "polished" or "accomplished" are somehow betraying their race. The Racial Biases of Duke Hating
Neither is leaving furniture or fittings so ingrained with dirt and dust that they are never quite the same again and, oh yes, leaving the back yard full of rubble that the dustmen will refuse to take away.
My educated guess as to the reason many of you do this is not that you are trying to argue in a circle, but that it is so ingrained in you to think in naturalistic or uniformitarian terms that you have trouble conceiving another way of looking at things. Biblical inerrancy vs. physical evidence: continued - The Panda's Thumb
So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
But there's a deeply ingrained part of my mind and my libido that inevitably gets turned on when I hear the word "spank," that starts to conjure erotic images and stories. Boing Boing
Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
There is an ingrained faith that effort and self-improvement will be rewarded, and that if things go wrong it is up to you to fix them.
Committee members said ministers were not doing enough to persuade people to use less fuel and must be prepared to use tax to change ingrained habits.
So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
Each day we make countless choices and live out deeply ingrained habits that all add up to a lifestyle. Christianity Today
Even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
Much of this goes for the underclass of whites too and it amuses me that behind much of the do-gooding is a latent racism so ingrained that it takes a Boris Johnson to detect it. Archive 2007-08-05
However, it is no more proper to undertreat than to overtreat conditions that can be diagnosed early in childhood, particularly when treatment can reduce or prevent ingrained psychological impairments in older children and in adults. Reviewing The New Spain
Our ingrained habit is to smile, to appease, to placate, to supplicate and to accept the behavior of the powerful, especially when we stand next to them. Adam Galinsky: Research on Power Teaches Why Blagojevich Did What he Did (...and Why he Might Get Away With It)
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me, because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get," Merkel said, referring to former times under communism when people would stand in line for hours to buy a few bananas or oranges. Angela Merkel Reflects On German Reunification Anniversary
Exportability needs to become ingrained in the requirement setting, commissioning and production processes - because only through exportability can risks and costs be shared in a viable way. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Rugby is their national sport, totally ingrained in their culture. Times, Sunday Times
It's a stereotypical behaviour in which ingrained cultural boundaries keep men and women from connecting romantically.
We face problems when our ingrained literacy is brought to oral cultures.
The associative guilt was ingrained in his soul.
Chastity was as deep ingrained in them as Party loyalty.
As long as this rule is ingrained in our culture, effective solutions to our worst problems will be politically infeasible, and politically feasible solutions will be ineffective or destructive.
Eating healthily became an ingrained habit for me, and my approach is a lifestyle, not a diet. The Sun
According to the Daily Mail on February 28, one retired couple of the UK found a weird image ingrained in the trunk of a poplar tree when they were chopping firewood.
As with America's obsession with handguns, it will take more than a few high school pupil massacres to shift the ingrained attitudes of this blinkered lobby.
These traits are ingrained and stable dispositions to respond to certain situations in particular ways characteristic of the personality.
Unfortunately, we sometimes hear of neurotic behaviors and ingrained habits such as feather-picking activities being prompted by sheer boredom.
There is in the contemporary world an ingrained, deeply inherited belief to the contrary: that the human species is by nature violent, aggressive, competitive, protective of its territory, rejective of the "other. Peter Clothier: Survival Of The Selfless?
In my view, efficiency is implicit in the concept of sustainability, which is ingrained in the bill's purpose and elsewhere.
Chastity was as deeply ingrained in them as Party loyalty.
The habit of war was deeply ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
Morals tend to be deeply ingrained.
The belief in a positive attitude is so ingrained in American thinking.
The belief that we should do our duty is deeply ingrained in most of us.
Because my boss was steeped in that culture it became ingrained in me as well. Times, Sunday Times
Equal pay for equal work is deeply ingrained in the human psycheand for good reason (even though it doesn't always play itself outin the workplace).
But then, the notion that our babudom is thick-skinned is so ingrained in our minds that the BBMP's action seems barely credible; even an eyewash. Daily News & Analysis
The continuing problems of Northern Ireland demonstrate the futility of responding to a deeply ingrained political problem with a law-and-order response.
The imagery of the black knight is an archetype, already ingrained in our minds. [GUEST POST] Ari Marmell on Why Anti Matters
We believe that customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire company and ingrained in our culture," said Hsieh (pronounced "shay"), who sold Zappos. com to Amazon. com for $1.2 billion last year. Customer service is battleground in highly competitive market
Because we talked earlier about how if you pulled an opinion and you see more evidence to the contrary, your opinion becomes more ingrained. Smithsonian Mag
From an early age they have a competitive environment in which skills become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
It was terribly convenient timing and sparked what has become an ingrained cynicism in my attitude.
You select food or "facts" that reinforce your ingrained attitude and so miss the opportunity to improve your success and your life through new and different ideas. Your One Week Way to Mind-Fitness
THE dictionary definition of misogyny is the ingrained prejudice against women. The Sun
This has become ingrained into our culture. Times, Sunday Times
Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
Be aware of ingrained attitudes. Times, Sunday Times
This has become ingrained into our culture. Times, Sunday Times
The U.S. economy is in the midst of a distorted boom, with an increasingly ingrained inflationary bias.
It seems that negative moods are now an ingrained habit. Times, Sunday Times
It is in our homes and classrooms that lifelong attitudes are ingrained. The Sun
It is in our homes and classrooms that lifelong attitudes are ingrained. The Sun
Such ingrained prejudices cannot be corrected easily.
You select food or "facts" that reinforce your ingrained attitude and so miss the opportunity to improve your success and your life through new and different ideas. Your One Week Way to Mind-Fitness
It will only become a drawback if the habits of partisanship have become ingrained. Times, Sunday Times
Because we talked earlier about how if you pulled an opinion and you see more evidence to the contrary, your opinion becomes more ingrained. Smithsonian Mag
Support for human rights and human dignity is ingrained in America.
Human rights groups say that this abuse is ingrained in prison culture. Times, Sunday Times
As a bonus, the ingrained discipline and level of fitness of a dancer makes them generally compliant to hold poses for longer periods than the average client or model, without discomfort or complaint.
The practice of soring has been ingrained as an acceptable practice in the industry for decades. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
I have not yet stopped buying the paper, as I simply find it too hard to break such an ingrained habit, but each morning I spend a little longer in the newsagent's before picking it up.
It is ingrained at a preverbal level from the time we are infants; it is our earliest socialization experience.
It is a quality that has become ingrained since the trauma of their relegation. Times, Sunday Times
This culture of misplaced loyalty has become so ingrained in our national psyche that in offices across the country staff are engaged in a battle to see who can stay the latest or arrive the earliest.
Group foraging is so ingrained in goatfish that individuals kept in separate (but adjacent) tanks will synchronize their movements even if they have never hunted. In Sync
The problem lies with law enforcement (dowries are still widespread) and the ingrained attitudes of those who flout the law. Times, Sunday Times

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