Example Sentences

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Listen carefully to the Octet and all that exuberance and suffusion of warmth can be heard as not just innocent overflowing spirit but containing more than the composer or his world could sustain.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2020

The suffusion is likely to continue through the spring; Blueface has recorded songs with Drake, the Game, French Montana, Lil Pump, E-40 and others.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019

The grains are soaked in it, given a dose of sesame oil, then steamed in a suffusion of crushed ginger, garlic and cilantro.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018

In each case, the face is transformed by a kind of gentle suffusion.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2017

From the lakeshore looking up southward at the hills I saw a light I knew: the blink, the white suffusion of the sky, the glare of the glacier lying high beyond.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin