Ingratiate is an English word with synonyms like manipulate or control. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ingratiate meaning
- To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them; to insinuate oneself; to worm one's way in.
- To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
Synonyms of Ingratiate
Using Ingratiate
- The main meaning on this page is: To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them; to insinuate oneself; to worm one's way in. | To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
- Useful related words include: manipulate, keep in line, control.
- In the example corpus, ingratiate often appears in combinations such as: to ingratiate, ingratiate himself, ingratiate themselves.
Context around Ingratiate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ingratiate
- In this selection, "ingratiate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, helped, help, google, himself, themselves and yourself stand out and add context to how "ingratiate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appearances will ingratiate trump with and cheaper to ingratiate themselves with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ingratiate" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ingratiate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Guevara tried to ingratiate himself with LAX. (7 words)
This has helped ingratiate players to the beauty of Tears of the Kingdom's world. (15 words)
When inhabiting potentially hard to love characters, how do you ingratiate them to an audience? (15 words)
Olyphant, Danes, and Quaid play characters who are squirrely and off-putting by design, but doesn’t even try to penetrate their veneer of wealth long enough to ingratiate them before it flips the script and reveals their secrets. (39 words)
It followed a concerted, monthslong effort by Mr. Johnson to ingratiate himself with the president-elect in hopes of winning his backing and averting another messy fight for the speakership at the start of the 119th Congress on Friday. (39 words)
The announcement via Google.org said it will help Google ingratiate itself with some of the leading scientific minds, through direct cash injections and by providing infrastructure to power their projects, Xinhua news agency reported. (35 words)
When inhabiting potentially hard to love characters, how do you ingratiate them to an audience? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
Olyphant, Danes, and Quaid play characters who are squirrely and off-putting by design, but doesn’t even try to penetrate their veneer of wealth long enough to ingratiate them before it flips the script and reveals their secrets.
The way to ingratiate yourself with Trump was simple: just say nice things about him on TV.
This has helped ingratiate players to the beauty of Tears of the Kingdom's world.
Twitter owner Elon Musk gave incels who pay $7 a month to ingratiate themselves with their dear leader the ability to post long tweets.
When inhabiting potentially hard to love characters, how do you ingratiate them to an audience?
Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.
Flagg has made it a point to ingratiate himself with not just the team, but the community.
He did try to ingratiate himself with the Bat-Family in the DCYou-era series, but the little guy annoyed Batman as much as he ever did.
It followed a concerted, monthslong effort by Mr. Johnson to ingratiate himself with the president-elect in hopes of winning his backing and averting another messy fight for the speakership at the start of the 119th Congress on Friday.
Stevens didn’t just help ingratiate Clifford, l and transfer, into the Rams’ fold last year.
The announcement via Google.org said it will help Google ingratiate itself with some of the leading scientific minds, through direct cash injections and by providing infrastructure to power their projects, Xinhua news agency reported.
The hope being that these appearances will ingratiate Trump with these young men, enough to bring them out to the polls.
Finn would need a social daemon as he grew up surrounded by other Stormtroopers, as well as the fact that he worked so hard to ingratiate himself into the Resistance.
New wide receivers coach Aaron Moorehead has a ton on his plate, but would immediately ingratiate himself to Eagles fans if he gets Reagor on the right track early.
They appear to be generous to their local counties, but in reality, they know it’s cheaper to ingratiate themselves with these less populated counties.
Guevara tried to ingratiate himself with LAX.
He looks to be nearing a return after being out on the grass at the club’s Colney training base, and has used his return to England to ingratiate with Gunners fans as well.
He only says things that will ingratiate him to shame the (mainstream media) that destroyed him during his failed run.
It’s here where Nall can especially rely on Bears veterans to help himself ingratiate into Chicago’s firmly established team culture.
When Colin isn't hectoring Heidi with constant phone calls he's trying to ingratiate himself with bigger businessmen and busily trousering great fistfuls of taxpayer dollars from the whole dodgy Homecoming deal.
Common combinations with ingratiate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to ingratiate 17×
- ingratiate himself 11×
- ingratiate themselves 5×
- ingratiate them 2×
- will ingratiate 2×