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Six example sentences with ingratiate, each labelled with its topic.
The intern tried to ingratiate himself with the founders by rewriting a deck nobody had asked him to touch.
Startups
Candidates ingratiate themselves with the farming districts every spring, then forget the promised road until the next election.
Politics
She refused to ingratiate herself with the new director, preferring to let three years of billing records speak.
Business
Courtiers worked to ingratiate themselves with the new queen by praising the poets she had favored in exile.
History
The novel's clerk tries to ingratiate himself with every wealthy visitor, and the effort is painful to read.
Literature
The rookie tried to ingratiate himself with the veterans by carrying their bags and never once asking for minutes.
Basketball
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