INGRATIATE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for INGRATIATE, such as:

1. Carol smiled upon them ingratiatingly.
2. He tried to ingratiate himself into her parents' good graces.
3. Matvy Ilyitch approached her with a majestic air and ingratiating speeches.
4. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.
5. He was twisting and twirling about, ingratiating himself with the daughters of an ancient General.

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 Meanings and Examples of INGRATIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ingratiate
 v.  become popular with; make agreeable or acceptable
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself in our good opinion.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
2  The Petersburg Freemasons all came to see him, tried to ingratiate themselves with him, and it seemed to them all that he was preparing something for them and concealing it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
3  But to show he was not trying to ingratiate himself with Vronsky, he promptly added some slightly critical remarks.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
4  He had opened a small shop on Glasnevin Road where, he flattered himself, his manners would ingratiate him with the housewives of the district.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
5  Matvy Ilyitch approached her with a majestic air and ingratiating speeches.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  He was twisting and twirling about, ingratiating himself with the daughters of an ancient General.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
7  Although Prince Vasili listened reluctantly and not very politely to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go away.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
8  The more emotional and ingratiating the expression of Natasha's face became, the more serious and stern grew Sonya's.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV
9  Rospigliosi, quite set up with his new dignities, went with a good appetite and his most ingratiating manner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
10  He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
11  "Yes'm, it's me," said Emmie, tossing her head with an ingratiating smile and starting toward the steps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said "Good Pussy," stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  Carol smiled upon them ingratiatingly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Carol smiled ingratiatingly, to indicate that she was indeed one who desired to sacrifice, but she sighed, "I don't know; I'm afraid I'm not heroic."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  He tried to ingratiate himself into her parents' good graces.
2  She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.