Sample Sentences for
imbue
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  • "Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."  (source)
    Imbuing = instilling (filling)
  • With hindsight her behavior seemed even colder, her actions imbued with some sinister intent.  (source)
    imbued = filled
  • As my job taught me a little more about America's class divide, it also imbued me with a bit of resentment, directed toward both the wealthy and my own kind.  (source)
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  • With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure—despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.  (source)
    imbued = instilled (filled)
  • Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.†  (source)
  • Rowan puts his hands on either side of her face and squeezes, imbuing her with an otherworldly gold light.  (source)
    imbuing = filling
  • Two things must here be accurately distinguished: equality inclines men to wish to form their own opinions; but, on the other hand, it imbues them with the taste and the idea of unity, simplicity, and impartiality in the power which governs society.†  (source)
  • …political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population, imbued, some have said, with the habit of obedience;  (source)
    imbued = instilled (filled)
  • And tomorrow she'd imbue and recharge what was now hers.†  (source)
  • And as a women's college, Smith was focused on imbuing its students with the very sort of self-reliance and self-confidence Luma felt she had been deprived of at home.  (source)
    imbuing = filling
  • It imbues all classes with a respect for the thing judged, and with the notion of right.†  (source)
  • Probably because ...you know, it's imbued with evil magic.†  (source)
  • I was told it can imbue its possessor with the ability to bring order from chaos.†  (source)
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