[ UK /ɪnstˈɪl/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈstɪɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
    inculcate values into the young generation
  2. impart gradually
    Her presence instilled faith into the children
    transfuse love of music into the students
  3. enter drop by drop
    instill medication into my eye
  4. fill, as with a certain quality
    The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide
  5. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
    Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
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How To Use instill In A Sentence

  • It was intended to be a horizon altering and opening experience that instilled the anthropological attitude.
  • It was intended to be a horizon altering and opening experience that instilled the anthropological attitude.
  • We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
  • I think it frustrates adults when they cannot instill their ideas into teens.
  • The full moon instilling some notion of romanticism in the minds of the stupid humans.
  • The circulating nurse instills tetracaine hydrochloride drops to decrease the burning sensation of the diluted povidone-iodine solution.
  • Sure enough, the tremor of his voice instilled fear but something within felt familiar with his malevolent aura.
  • That is an attitude and a behaviour that he instilled over many years because they had success through that. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fallopian tube patency can be confirmed by detecting an enhanced signal after instilling microbubbles into the uterine cavity.
  • But a strong work ethic was instilled in him at an early age.
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