inurein a sentence
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The culture creates children inured to violence and gore.inured = desensitized (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)
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She is inured to the cold.inured = desensitized (less troubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)
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I thought I was inured to her insults, but I cried as I drove home.inured = desensitized (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)
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She has suffered so much misfortune already, she is inured to loss that would devastate others.
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The locals were inured to all this, but strangers sometimes lost their wits. (source)inured = untroubled by something due to prior exposure
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Another that he grabbed the muzzle of a stray dog and cut out its eyes just to inure himself to the suffering of other beings. (source)inure = harden
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I never got inured to the jumping. (source)inured = untroubled due to prior experience
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He needed to expose Seabiscuit to a similarly unruly gate horse and inure him to the sight of it. (source)inure = desensitize or harden
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I commenced by inuring my body to hardship. (source)inuring = desensitizing or hardening
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By suffering her to do whatever she pleases, I have enured her to a habit of being pleased to do whatever I like.† (source)enured = desensitized or hardened
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Not Youth Pertains to Me Not youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk, Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant, In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me, Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me, I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier, And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp, Composed these songs.† (source)inures = desensitizes or hardens
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And yet still I have always wondered if training or rearing tells more than the simple earth and ash and blood from which we come, or whether these social inurements eventually fall away, like the moldering garments of the dead, to reveal the underlying bones.† (source)
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Then Small God... Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent. (source)Inured = hardened
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Then you want me not to let some previous conviction inure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter. (source)inure = harden
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They were muscular and bred over the centuries to be inured to pain, qualities that served them well as they dove into the icy waters of the North Atlantic to assist fishermen. (source)inured = hardened
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Let thy increase of power and influence inure to the King who comes.† (source)inure = desensitize or harden
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