ingratiate

How To Use ingratiate In A Sentence

• Counsel will do anything to ingratiate themselves with the Court, Mr Jackson.
• He portrays him as a slightly nerdish character who cleverly ingratiates himself with his fellow journalists with a supportive word here and considerate action there.
• Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery.
• His huckstering abilities soon ingratiated him to Joe Frazier, the world heavyweight champion, whom he accompanied to Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973, when Frazier defended his crown against Foreman.
• She had never been one to try to ingratiate herself into a group. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 5: IN THE DREAMING
• He says, ‘You don't know whether she was trying to ingratiate herself to other kids by doing favours.
• In order to ingratiate himself with the populace, he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
• Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss, would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
• She had never been one to try to ingratiate herself into a group. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 5: IN THE DREAMING
• They publish and broadcast fluffy, weak, and uncritical stories in a transparent attempt to ingratiate themselves to communities.