Examples of ingrate in a Sentence
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To these ingrates, the Trump administration has sent a straightforward message: you will no longer be allowed to play the United States for a sucker.
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Randall Schweller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
The violent ingrates stole the man’s phone and hopped out of the car.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
But those comfy corporate media ingrates aren’t real revolutionaries waging an uprising like the intra-party conflicts among their idols Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky during Russia’s October Revolution.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
Just don’t act like an ingrate by twisting your face to clearly show your displeasure.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
If my father is grateful, who am I, the ingrate, to say anything.
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
Nevertheless, in the summer of 1922 literary friends passed the hat to provide financing for the notorious ingrate’s next adventure.
—Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
No more high-revving VTEC four-cylinder and slick manual transmission for you ingrates, because—wait, hold on a moment.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
Randall Schweller, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
The violent ingrates stole the man’s phone and hopped out of the car.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
But those comfy corporate media ingrates aren’t real revolutionaries waging an uprising like the intra-party conflicts among their idols Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky during Russia’s October Revolution.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
Just don’t act like an ingrate by twisting your face to clearly show your displeasure.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
If my father is grateful, who am I, the ingrate, to say anything.
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
Even if doing so served only to save an ingrate from herself.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
Nevertheless, in the summer of 1922 literary friends passed the hat to provide financing for the notorious ingrate’s next adventure.
—Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
No more high-revving VTEC four-cylinder and slick manual transmission for you ingrates, because—wait, hold on a moment.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
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“Ingrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ingrate. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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ingrate
noun
in·grate
ˈin-ˌgrāt 
: an ungrateful person
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