Example Sentences

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Three weeks earlier, under Mr. Verzi’s supervision, the Patafios had steeped Munich and caramel malts in water, heated it, added malt extract and then added hops.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012

At the season premiere a week before, René Pape — a tall European, though not blond, and a fixture in the Met’s “Tristan” since 1999 — had steeped the king’s laments in a wintry isolation.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2011

Seen in his deadly light, the mortification of the flesh never looked so mortifying as in his portrait of Dorothy Parker, taken after she had steeped herself for decades in martinis and her own bile.

From Time Magazine Archive

To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn’t imagine it.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

After it had steeped awhile, I took out the bags, added quite a lot of sugar and put the pitcher in the basement.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien