Example Sentences

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When Ms. Walls became a journalist, she felt that she had at last cut herself off from the fantastic atmosphere that had suffused her chaotic upbringing.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

Rue and fury had suffused the cinematic mood.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2020

Ms. Fortin, 64, was the daughter of a World War II veteran who, in her recollection, had suffused the household with silent rage.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2014

I had a sense of foreboding much like the one that had suffused so many of my days at Sing Sing—a feeling of imminent confrontation, of badness just ahead.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Jack bit her lips, put her hand to her face to feel the sudden flush which had suffused it at the thought of her own unfitness for so great a responsibility.

From The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire by Vandercook, Margaret