Sample Sentences for
ingratiate
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    I wish to ingratiate myself.†  (source)
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    It had occurred to her that, with my interest in architecture, my true métier was designing scenery for the films, and she had asked two Hollywood magnates to the party with whom she wished to ingratiate me.†  (source)
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    For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone — mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt — but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.†  (source)
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    They were a band of individualists, and a much more ingratiating group than the Massachusetts men.†  (source)
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    He had made no attempt to ingratiate himself; he was what he was and he had done what he had done for the good of Mother China.†  (source)
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    Miss Lucilla Harris inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both hands.†  (source)
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    Cedric had his own bedroom, played in the complex's landscaped courtyard with other children, and attended a mostly white elementary school, where his studiousness and good manners quickly ingratiated him to his teachers.†  (source)
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    Eager for praise, for public esteem, and expert in ingratiation, this demon possessed him utterly at the most unexpected moments, in the most decorous surroundings, when he was himself doing all in his power to preserve the good opinion in which he was held.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Lord Decimus, though one of the greatest of the earth, was not remarkable for ingratiatory manners, and Ferdinand had coached him up to the point of noticing all the fellows he might find there, and saying he was glad to see them.†  (source)
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    I heard the alley door open and Willemse's voice, smooth and ingratiating.†  (source)
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    Over what seemed like the course of a week, Rialla tried to ingratiate herself with Nasuada and, in a sideways manner, convince her that the Varden's campaign was doomed, that their reasons for fighting were flawed, and that it was only right and proper to submit to Galbatorix's authority.†  (source)
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    If officers stood on the sidewalk as he walked by, he bowed ingratiatingly at them.†  (source)
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    "Any fool could see how the girl has ingratiated herself with my father," Mr. Pritchard said.†  (source)
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