imprint
noun
a mark made by pressure; a mark or figure impressed or printed on something.
have imprinted
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present perfectof imprint.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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She grew up in Southern California, as did I, and this place of sunshine and danger, with its attendant anxieties, must have imprinted on her, as it did on me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
Without such books to preserve their legacy, the Rapanui have imprinted their people’s memory in activities and traditions passed from generation to generation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
More important than the money, perhaps, is the huge stamp of approval the Roux Institute and its founders, David and Barbara Roux, have imprinted on Maine.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
Those conversations seemed to have imprinted on Graves a certain caginess in how to talk about environmental change.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2019
How quickly those sunny years of my childhood passed away, and what tender memories they have imprinted on my mind!
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) Taylor
