Sample Sentences for
imbibe
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    The study indicates that when people imbibe can be as important as how much alcohol they consume. A woman who regularly has three-to-four drinks one night a week has an 80% higher risk of breast cancer than a woman who regularly has three-to-four weeks over the course of a week.
    imbibe = drink alcohol
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    I spent the whole night imbibing short YouTube videos of cats.
    imbibing = taking in (watching)
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    She imbibed through the holidays, but gave up drinking as a New Year's resolution.
    imbibed = drank alcohol
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    She grew to have a dread of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child.  (source)
    imbibed = taken in (learned)
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    Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?†  (source)
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    The men jacked the lid off the barrel, imbibing began, the pile of wood was set on fire, an Alabaman transformed a huge can into a drum, and inebriated men began dancing.†  (source)
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    Solitude This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.†  (source)
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    He asked David Alexander to stay around Pollard as much as possible to keep him from overimbibing.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overimbibing means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The spice, chiefly noted for its geriatric qualities, is mildly addictive when taken in small quantities, severely addictive when imbibed in quantities above two grams daily per seventy kilos of body weight.†  (source)
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    His relief at finding men who knew where Texas was caused him to imbibe freely.†  (source)
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    Along side them another car was imbibing fuel; it contained the two matronly victims-to-be, who, after a day of shopping and pleasure in Jacksonville, were returning to their homes in a small town near the Florida-Georgia border.†  (source)
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    In the corner to the left are the three musicians, upon a little platform, toiling heroically to make some impression upon the hubbub; also the babies, similarly occupied, and an open window whence the populace imbibes the sights and sounds and odors.†  (source)
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    There is another astonishing thing about Hobbits of old that must be mentioned, an astonishing habit: they imbibed or inhaled, through pipes of clay or wood, the smoke of the burning leaves of a herb, which they called pipe-weed or leaf, a variety probably of Nicotiana.†  (source)
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