engender

Example Sentences

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Iranian flags, however, don’t engender the same public fervor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

“Judges should not have to worry when they rule against the president that the ruling will engender real personal threats,” Vladeck concluded.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

“That being said, should it, as previously flagged, engender the restart of Ngungaju, increased supply will likely place downward pressure on prices,” says Jefferies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

He knew that art had the power to transform, to unite, to engender empathy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë