ingratiate

How To Use ingratiate In A Sentence

• On arrival in a village he would ingratiate himself with the locals to find out if anyone owned a violin, or he might visit monasteries and other likely prospects, offering to repair their instruments.
• From each and every canvas I saw that the model surveyed the viewer, resisting centuries of admonition to ingratiate herself.
• What would be the use of trying to ingratiate herself with him? MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
• What would be the use of trying to ingratiate herself with him? MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
• Let him try to attack her again, threaten her, try to ingratiate himself with her, do his damndest! IN LOVE AND WAR
• Father, plead, ingratiate and abase yourself before your all-powerful children!
• She had never been one to try to ingratiate herself into a group. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 5: IN THE DREAMING
• Those of us who live in the provinces wonder at the obsessive efforts of some Tory politicians to ingratiate themselves with that lobby.
• She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration.
• Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss, would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.