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Example sentences for "ingratiating"

Lexicographically close words:
ingrate; ingrateful; ingratefull; ingratiate; ingratiated; ingratitude; ingratus; ingrauen; ingredi; ingredient
  1. He lingered a moment at the door, looking back with an ingratiating leer; but she paid him no attention, and he took himself off, confident that her sulkiness could not result in anything unpleasant to anybody except herself.

  2. His ingratiating smile was gone, and an impenetrable solemnity of countenance appeared in its stead.

  3. He shifted the camp-stool back again, and looked at Mrs. Lecount with his ingratiating smile.

  4. Ye'll no forget one thing, my leddy," he said, with the most ingratiating politeness.

  5. Miss Van Zandt, diminutive, but winsome in voice as well as figure, and ingratiating in manner, recalled an old observation about precious things being done up in small parcels.

  6. Ternina, whose refined and ingratiating art did not receive full appreciation till later.

  7. Two or three of these, with ingratiating smirks, converged upon the spot where their young chief halted and called aloud for torchon lace.

  8. Soon ingratiating himself with this monarch, he obtained from his customary profusion towards his favorites, several offices in Wales and enormous grants of abbey-lands in some of the southern counties.

  9. He was too cocksure of himself to grant me even so much as an ingratiating smile.

  10. I am confident that I asked for coffee in a very mild and ingratiating tone, in direct contrast to his command to get out, and was somewhat ruffled by his stare of speechless rage.

  11. Once when the ladies had emerged simultaneously from their domiciles Mrs. Pumpelly had smilingly waddled forward a few steps with an ingratiating bow, but Mrs. Wells had looked over her head and hadn't seen her.

  12. Whoever or whatever she was, it was evident that Bindo was busily engaged ingratiating himself with her, having previously established a firm friendship with her son, who, by the way, had left Scarborough on the previous day.

  13. He succeeded in ingratiating himself with the driver of the train.

  14. He even succeeded in so ingratiating himself with the driver of the train during a long stop at a junction, as to be invited on to the engine for the remainder of that driver's run, and then he returned to Captain Afleck grimy but triumphant.

  15. Illustration: "He succeeded in ingratiating himself with the driver of the train.

  16. He assumed the ingratiating manner which for ten years past the banker had seen all men put on when they wanted to get the better of him for their own purposes, and which gave him at once the advantage over them.

  17. Among them would be attempting to bake edible cookies and cakes which still had the hope of ingratiating herself to her son without making the obdurate Gabriele look repentant.

  18. The idea of being contrite and ingratiating myself to a child for adult choices that are never ideal is not my way of spending a day.

  19. It doesn't matter what you say," she added consolingly, as she went towards two approaching women with outstretched hand and an ingratiating smile.

  20. Agreeable and ingratiating storekeepers who sold him groceries, picks, shovels, powder, drills, at fifty per cent.

  21. Underwood stood holding open the library door, with a smile that was meant to be ingratiating and conciliatory.

  22. Julia looked into Oona's face with something of the ingratiating air which she assumed to her victims of the other sex.

  23. I think," said Julia with an ingratiating look, "that you must be very happy in yourself.

  24. 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.

  25. The sudden bout of tenderness brought the tears stinging to her eyes and she was for ingratiating herself into his embrace, but he withdrew, edging toward the piano with an entire flattening of tone.

  26. She was still breathing deep the buoyant ether of the moment, and beneath the ingratiating warmth of fur utterly soothed.

  27. Fumes of well-made coffee rose as ingratiating as the perfume of a love story.

  28. The musician turned to face the ingratiating smile of Raymond Owen.

  29. I have done what you commanded me, master," Balthazar said with an ingratiating smile.

  30. Carpaccio was not exactly a great painter, but he was human and ingratiating beyond any other that Venice can show, and his pictures here and at S.

  31. Such ingratiating acts are not common in Venice, where animals are scarce and all dogs must be muzzled.

  32. Excluding "The Crucifixion" I should name "The Marriage in Cana" at the Salute as his most ingratiating Biblical scene.

  33. Once more her voice carried the note of anxious embarrassment, and she tried to give it also an ingratiating quality, as she replied.

  34. Most mountaineers speak with a nasal harshness, but this man had the exceptional quality that gave to his words an ingratiating and velvety smoothness.

  35. Be reasonable, Bully," urged Barney with his ingratiating whine.

  36. He suggested now, with an ingratiating whine in his voice, that he would like to see a man at Whoop-Up first.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ingratiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; beggarly; bland; crawling; disarming; fawning; flattering; fulsome; glib; groveling; hangdog; ingratiating; obsequious; oily; parasitic; propitiatory; prostrate; servile; smooth; smug; sniveling; soapy; sponging; suave; submissive; supple; sycophantic; truckling; unctuous