Sample Sentences for
impact
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(editor-reviewed)

impact as in:  her impact on foreign policy

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    She is having a tremendous impact on the art world.
    impact = influence or effect
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    Harry's mouth fell open as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him.  (source)
    impact = effect
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    Go to college, get a law degree, and then you'll be able to have a real impact.  (source)
    impact = influence or effect
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    You must know that space in state homes is at a premium these days, and with budget cuts, every StaHo is impacted—ours included.  (source)
    impacted = affected
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    DRACO: Face it—his celebrity impacts upon you all.†  (source)
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    In the beginning, it was the profanity that made an immediate impact.  (source)
    impact = impression or influence
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    I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life.†  (source)
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    She impacted savagely on the hard sand bottom at the edge of the continental shelf.†  (source)
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    Nearby crater impacts brought rocks and boulders.†  (source)
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    Anyone who claims that the older folks have a more difficult time in the Annex doesn't realize that the problems have a far greater impact on us.  (source)
    impact = influence or effect
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    Two spits exploded over Jason's head, the bullets impacting into metal behind him.†  (source)
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    The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there.†  (source)
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    The scale survived the first few impacts, but then we heard a big sproinggg and it flew apart.†  (source)
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impact as in:  at the moment of impact

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The meteor impacted the moon.
impacted = collided with
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    She was killed instantly upon impact.
    impact = collision
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    With each impact, the heavy steel wall hinges creaked, but they held.  (source)
    impact = hit
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    The impact knocks the wind out of me and I wheeze, struggling to breathe again.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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    The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me.  (source)
    impact = collision
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    All this happening against a background of continuous and violent upheaval, mountain ranges thrust up and eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving….  (source)
    impacts = hits
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    The impact threw me backward into Our Lady.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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    He landed faceup, so that his backpack absorbed the impact.  (source)
    impact = force of the collision
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    He heard the impact of bullet on flesh and bone, felt Newt's body jerk, then fall onto the street.  (source)
    impact = hit
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    "The police told me you were the one with him when it happened." ... I'm standing on a track, watching the train barrel toward me, and I tense up and wait for the impact, the moment she asks what happened.  (source)
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    And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane down to reduce the impact.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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    He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face.  (source)
    impact = hit
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    Meg rushed at the man imprisoned in the column, but as she reached what seemed to be the open door she was hurled back as though she had crashed into a brick wall. ... Meg was so sick and dizzy from the impact that she could not answer.  (source)
    impact = collision
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    As Kit moved behind her the astonishment of the assembled townspeople met her with the impact of a gathering wave.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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