engrain's Usage Examples:

English is so strong and it becomes so engrained that often many people just decide not to speak Gaelic later.

The new power which now rose, to the first rank, created by Philip of Macedon, bad no engrained tendency inimical to the Persian.

In these traits are engrained the general conditions of history and culture, under which the Iranians lived: on the one hand, the contrast between Iranian and Turanian; on the other, the dominating position of Babylon, which influenced most strongly the civilization and religion of Iran.

engrained in the psyche, as if it is part of the very fabric of the subcontinent.

engrained in British culture - yet few of these participation sports get regular TV exposure.

The habit of telling the " illiterate peasant " what to do is still too deeply engrained.

Then the walls of the mother-cells are absorbed, and the pollengrains float freely in the fluid of the pollen-sacs, which gradually disappears, and the mature grains form a powdery mass within the anther.

- Germinating pollengrain of Epilobium (highly mag.

The mature pollengrain is, like other spores, a single cell; except in the case of some submerged aquatic plants, it has a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose, the endospore or intine, and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or extine.

"engrain" or "ingrain," meaning to dye in any fast colour.

These are attitudes engrained in many sections of Indian society.

After the entrance of the pollengrain the pollen-chamber becomes roofed over by a blunt protuberance of nucellar tissue.

I couldn't stop a habit so long engrained.