Example Sentences

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What you add to it will imbue your entire dish.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

The formality of a courtroom trial will imbue these women’s stories with new meaning: no longer accusations, but testimony.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2023

“But when it goes well, it’s amazing. You can make up stuff, and things can seem brilliant on accident. People will imbue intention into everything that you do.”

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

All of our stuff will know where it is — and that awareness will imbue the real world with some of the power of the virtual.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2013

He will then be wise enough to know how wretched a place is the interior of a pyramid—an amount of wisdom with which no teaching of mine will imbue him.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony