diffusing
- present participle of diffuse.
Example Sentences
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Diffusing molecules can’t travel very far, limiting how big a bacterium can be—or so the thinking went.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022
Diffusing the awkwardness of the Cubs-White Sox rivalry — with first lady Michelle Obama, as her husband noted, being a die-hard Cubs fan — was child’s play compared with the potential political tension.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2017
But outward from each lucid breast, When some passion left its haunt, Radiate surge of colour came, Diffusing blush-wise, palpitant, Dying all the filmy frame.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis
William Alien records in the same year, 1808, the formation of a "Society for Diffusing Information on the Subject of Punishment by Death."
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
But see, in splendor bursting from the storm, Arches itself the many-colored bow, And ever-changeful, yet continuous form, Now drawn distinctly, melting now away, Diffusing dewy coolness all around!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
