How to Use engender in a Sentence

engender

verb
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  • The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
  • Not all the witnesses who have come before the committee have engendered respect from Democrats.
    — Alana Abramson, Time, 24 Oct. 2019
  • For now, these sonic pushes and pulls are simply a reminder to myself that things often engender their opposites.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In blogging’s place came a slew of insatiable social media platforms, each of which seemed to sap energy, not engender it.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The one-yarn concept also engendered a different approach to building the collection.
    — Miles Socha, WWD, 15 June 2024
  • Sometimes the symbols engender private efforts to undermine them.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The House of Zuck will only have one vote at this big table, as a way to engender trust in the system despite Facebook’s checkered past.
    — John Pavlus, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Pham and the research team held workshops and other events within several communes to educate women and engender confidence to voice their needs.
    — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
  • And recently the company announced a $5.2 billion dollar loss for the quarter – a level of loss that doesn’t engender confidence.
    — Alexandra Stanton, Quartz at Work, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The group was built to help engender trust in Libra by distributing the influence over, and profits from, the currency among many companies rather than just Facebook.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But at the same time, his songs’ sophistication and wit engender distinct insights when addressed by operatic tenors or Broadway belters or late-night saloon singers.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That has engendered a feeling among some that, because the medium rewards performative outrage, the chase for YouTube hits incentivizes guests to be more extreme in their views.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Why not scrabble around in the lives of the folks who engender them?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
  • The party’s fear of bold ideas engenders a public fear of the same.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2019
  • This will engender a new era in global golf, for the better.
    — Town & Country, 6 June 2023
  • And think of the goodwill that Temple would engender if a certain board chair paid for it.
    — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • One of the surest ways to engender respect from white people the unmelanated is to die.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire.
    — The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • All the choices the Texans have made since the end of the season, with very few exceptions, do not engender trust.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The Holy Week Uprising engendered a great deal of fear.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Watching him trot around the globe week to week engendered only the warmest of envies.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 9 June 2018
  • The approach was inspired by the Black Panthers and sought to mend the divisions engendered by gang life.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • This boot engenders confidence in the far reaches of the backcountry and tours like a dream.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Saunders said he isn't surprised by the outpouring of good will engendered by the video.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • But that comes with the caveat that engendering reader trust is sometimes about playing the long game.
    — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Snow White and the Huntsman director, and, due to the horror this engendered, was banished from the sequel.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Not until the fourth quarter did the Ravens’ early-season offense, the one that had engendered so much hope in Baltimore, fully materialize.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Guarding it in the way Kennedy did can help engender respect for the dignity of others.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
  • In the season opener, Ohio State’s offensive line was one of the few places that engender pessimism.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Rulings of those sorts might well engender the greatest consolidation of presidential power since the New Deal.
    — Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024

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