How to Use ingratiate in a Sentence

ingratiate

verb
Definition of ingratiatenext
Synonyms for ingratiatenext
  • If true, calling their most beloved player around a saint is one way to ingratiate herself with her hosts.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 May 2017
  • Laughing when others laugh or tensing when others tense does more than ingratiate.
    — Jerry Useem, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
  • Unable to face the disappointed wrath of Aunt Rae, Larry ingratiates her by pleading not guilty and promising to fight the good fight on trial.
    — Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Some observers saw his presence there as purely political, a maneuver to ingratiate himself with the world leaders also attending.
    — Adam Rubenstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • In another movie, this stroke of luck would bring about some change in him, but Cedar has other things in mind, and soon Norman is back to his compulsive behavior, indulging his need to ingratiate.
    — Gary Thompson, kansascity, 17 May 2017
  • One by one, the four ingratiate themselves as key cogs of the rich and naive Park family.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Their first moves did not ingratiate the new owners with fans.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The quickest way for Riley to ingratiate himself with his new fan base is to change those trends.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.
    — Fu Goto, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, the members of the Thursday Murder Club start to ingratiate themselves with key players in the case.
    — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But after a few plays, Scott ingratiates himself into your psyche in a third-grade crush kind of way.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The move has been seen mostly as a way for the new leader to ingratiate himself to the Trump administration.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The owner wants to be here, has in eight months more overtly tried to ingratiate himself to the locals than what his family did over 34 years in San Diego.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • And this does not ingratiate him with Western governments and with the U.S. embassy.
    — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • And how did an ill-fated financier end up ingratiating himself to one of the world’s richest men?
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Since the outset of last season, Curry has cut down on his circus shots, in part to ingratiate Durant.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • People who attend get access to French bulldogs for 70 minutes, as well as bags of treats to ingratiate them, but there's something in it for the dogs, too.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Scenes like those from Thursday night certainly won’t ingratiate Allen with his new team or its fans.
    — Chuck Schilken, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Would Dershowitz turn up, looking to ingratiate himself with the blue-state elite by buying a leftist baked good?
    — Christopher Bonanos, The Cut, 5 July 2018
  • Phil Wong conjures a whole character, a needy, ingratiating student in the prison writing class, out of two words of script.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • A lot of fraudsters ingratiate themselves, and are very kind and thoughtful, and appear to be very sincere people.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And Stormzy, age 29, hasn’t gone out of his way to ingratiate himself with U.S. audiences.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • His off-the-cuff remarks have not ingratiated him to everyone Wall Street.
    — Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
  • In that film, the character attempts to ingratiate herself with the friends of her teen-age daughter by crossing boundaries.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
  • In the two months since, Paxton has only continued to ingratiate himself with the Dodgers’ clubhouse.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
  • Peter Angelos, who died at 94 years old last month, also said all the right things in those early days to ingratiate himself with fans.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This is her attempt to try to ingratiate her snakelike way into human form.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Jade isn’t the only gem that’s ingratiated itself into our hair-care routines of late.
    — Zoe Weiner, Allure, 27 July 2018
  • The funding surge serves to partially confirm the claims from Trump and some of his allies that an indictment would only serve to further ingratiate him to his base.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • No one admits that booking events there is an effort to ingratiate themselves with the president, but the look is at best unseemly.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 19 July 2019

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