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How to use instil in a sentence

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Being forced to rely on internet banking will hardly instil confidence in customers.
He spent hours with them every day, and it was of foremost importance to him to instil in them his own personal and cultural standards.
The national press has been pushing stories about arsonist and pyromaniacs and the need to instil harsher penalties.
To instil a sense of sportive spirit, facilities to play volleyball, kabaddi and tennicoit have been made within the jail premises.
Exhibiting the quiet but chilling fierceness that only the surest confidence can instil, he remained a man of few words.
When patients first instil pilocarpine they often experience a brow ache, which tends to reduce with longer-term use of the drug.
Downing Street hopes it will concentrate minds among the rebels, to instil in them the reality that inflicting defeat now would mean the end of Blair, not just this policy.
History is necessary to instil patriotism and pride in the younger generation about the cultural heritage, values systems and religions, she says.
The coach's first task was to instil belief in her abilities.
Parents and teachers up and down the land are endeavouring to instil high standards of personal behaviour and responsibility among young children.
It will instil in consumers a sense of responsibility about the environmental cost of their consumption.
Imagine the trust you could instil in readers if you could literally edit the past.
They instil in white America a false sense of self-imperviousness to facts or logic.
The children are, however, given a vocational initiation to instil in them a love of work.
One is to instil in the Francophone population a reflex to request services in their own language.
This is what warmongering politicians are trying to instil in our minds, and it is simply illogical.
This will instil in them an appreciation of the benefits of a global society while increasing their adaptability to new environments.
Education should instil in us an active faith in the vital values which make our lives worth living.
All this has one overriding aim: to instil in students a knowledge of themselves.
It aims to instil in youth a greater sense of responsibility towards themselves, their peers, their families and their community.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His first object was to instil into those who were with him a wise spirit in their relation to the gods.
The great object was to instil into me a love of truth, and in this she was indefatigable.
Why demoralise them, why instil the love of money into their innocent minds?
I wish to heaven, my dear Henry, he could instil into you a little of his ardour.
She must talk to ron in private, and try to instil into him some of her own energy and enterprise.
The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
A little while she stayed with me yet, and I sought to instil some measure of comfort into her soul.
The folds, the creases, and the plies instil life into the work.
So they seize on the idea of equality, and proceed to instil it.
Having warmed the fat of a squirrel in a strigil, instil it.
The seaman continued his efforts to instil warmth into the little frame.
Both tended to instil into the master pride and the power of command.
For Heaven's sake instil a word of caution into Tyndall's ears.
Only apprehension and prosecution, licence suspension and heavy fines, as your readers have said ad nauseum will instil discipline.
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