How to Use intrinsic in a Sentence

intrinsic

adjective
  • There’s a skills set that’s intrinsic with that.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Dec. 2025
  • That’s kind of my intrinsic goal.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The idea of genre as a space to express these things was intrinsic.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 4 July 2020
  • The restaurant has a head start by virtue of its intrinsic charm.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • For these folks, the phone has become an intrinsic part of their lives.
    — Ryan Knutson, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • What has happened here is not about your intrinsic worth (or hers).
    — Shon Faye, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
  • What’s at stake here is not a person’s intrinsic worth, right?
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Make a list of specific intrinsic goals and work to achieve them.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Both the white dwarf and the red dwarf have their own intrinsic magnetic fields.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • Size is an intrinsic part of the show’s visual language.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Simon doesn’t shy away from the intrinsic role that race, class and gender played in the tragedy.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
  • These days, patchouli is an intrinsic part of the perfumer’s palette.
    — April Long, Town & Country, 28 July 2019
  • In some sense, the number 2 is an intrinsic feature of sphere-ness.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • But an intrinsic part of me was mutated in ways that can’t be reversed.
    — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And people have an intrinsic value in themselves and a need to work.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • And the virus does seem to have a lower intrinsic pathogenicity to it.
    — ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • This is a project that is so intrinsic to Rebel and her Australian roots.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • The doughnut shape seems to be intrinsic to how grid cells represent space.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
  • There is a kind of intrinsic magnet present in this journey, which become ours.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There was a time when such extravagance was intrinsic to the faith.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • Sanskrit was an intrinsic part of the package.
    — Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The stars’ light waxes and wanes at a rate that signals their intrinsic brightness.
    — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
  • When the stock price equals the strike, the option contract no longer has any intrinsic value.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • There’s an intrinsic magic that happens on board.
    — Chrissie McClatchie, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the space where intrinsic conative mapping lives.
    — Carrie Moore, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But regardless, salmon seem to hold more intrinsic value to us.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a warmth that’s intrinsic to Bey’s acts of portrait-making.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Secrecy is intrinsic to the job description—for a hedge is a wall.
    — Frederick Kaufman, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Leighton saw value in the whole, not just the intrinsic worth of the materials.
    — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Yes, over the long term, the intrinsic value of healthy and growing companies will grow.
    — Dallas News, 30 May 2021

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