inure

How To Use inure In A Sentence

• We are so inured to the news, it's refreshing to have the conflict described by somebody who was there.
• As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw. House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
• It completely inures you from the slings and arrows of outrageous bloggers, creditors, film investors and divorce attorneys. Mark Morford: Mel Gibson's Top 10 Tips For Sexist Monsters
• The higher charge didn't inure to the benefit of the defendants in that case.
• This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. Archive 2007-09-01
• It was a revelation that shocked a public that had thought itself inured to stories of criminal excess.
• After living here for years I've become inured to the cold climate.
• our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
• They are inured to charges of lies or corruption - violence and prurience are what moves them.
• This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete