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Imbue in a sentence

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Imbue meaning

  1. To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
  2. To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
  3. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

Using Imbue

  • The main meaning on this page is: To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea. | To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
  • Useful related words include: penetrate, colorise, colorize, color.
  • In the example corpus, imbue often appears in combinations such as: to imbue, imbue the, imbue them.

Context around Imbue

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Imbue

  • In this selection, "imbue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, weapons, meaning and roz stand out and add context to how "imbue" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include able to imbue it with and and to imbue in them. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "imbue" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with imbue

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Moments require persons, for only persons can imbue them with enduring meaning. (12 words)

He noted, however, that Franke appears to imbue her faith with strains of other Christian traditions. (16 words)

The Aristotelian constraints heighten meaning and imbue every small event with a sort of transcendent weight. (16 words)

In the process of finishing her costume for Avenger-Con (think comiccon but for the MCU) she adds a finishing touch of an old family heirloom bracelet which just so happens to imbue her with powers similar to that of her favorite Avenger. (43 words)

But rather than imbue the film with depth and a rich subtext, the underlying trauma the film artfully sets up in the first half forces convoluted story mechanics in the second that make little sense—even in the context of a horror movie. (43 words)

The colleagues hope this award will motivate aspiring women to do the work required to realise the possibilities of which they dream, to research and learn about other women who have made great strides, and to imbue in them the desire to serve. (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

Fire is more offence-based, letting you hurl fireballs, summon pillars of flame, or imbue weapons with temporary buffs.

For some reason people have tried to imbue him with qualities that we can’t expect to see from him.

He’s averaged more than 1,250 yards rushing a season during his career, his work ethic and humble nature providing a blueprint for the culture Stefanski is trying to imbue in a locker room that hasn’t won consistently in decades.

His latest feature, “The Listener,” feels closer to his 2005 feature “Lonesome Jim,” itself a story about a depressed man trying to imbue meaning in his life by connecting with someone else.

In the process of finishing her costume for Avenger-Con (think comiccon but for the MCU) she adds a finishing touch of an old family heirloom bracelet which just so happens to imbue her with powers similar to that of her favorite Avenger.

Moments require persons, for only persons can imbue them with enduring meaning.

Piaf’s life was tragic and sad, and this movie is indeed tragic and sad, but Cotillard finds compelling ways to imbue that sadness with a passion that is abundantly clear in Piaf’s art.

Duniya told NAN that the free distribution of pads would imbue in the girls the confidence to participate in classroom activities, as their alternatives often left their school uniforms stained with blood.

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He noted, however, that Franke appears to imbue her faith with strains of other Christian traditions.

The back-and-forth process (layering, blending, scraping, wiping away) will imbue the work with a sense of movement and energy.

Their function is to imbue Roz’s surroundings with wonder and whimsy, eschewing the lifelike in favor of the exquisite.

The Rivian siblings aren't luxury in the traditional buttoned-up sense, but they are a marvel that imbue occupants with that special luxury feeling, especially on the campground.

Alison Saar’s “Imbue,” 2020, a public sculpture at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., that evokes the Yoruba goddess Yemoja.

But rather than imbue the film with depth and a rich subtext, the underlying trauma the film artfully sets up in the first half forces convoluted story mechanics in the second that make little sense—even in the context of a horror movie.

The Aristotelian constraints heighten meaning and imbue every small event with a sort of transcendent weight.

The Coen brothers have been known to imbue their stories with Old Testament morality and feature unstoppable forces, such as Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men or Gaear Grimsrud from the original film.

The colleagues hope this award will motivate aspiring women to do the work required to realise the possibilities of which they dream, to research and learn about other women who have made great strides, and to imbue in them the desire to serve.

For an episode that could have largely been place-setting for the cliffhanger and part one of the season finale, she is able to imbue it with real stakes and wonder.

In May, Intel’s newly formed made freely available a cross-platform library for natural language processing — — designed to imbue and benchmark conversational assistants with name entity recognition, intent extraction, and semantic parsing.

The Black People Twitter moderators, I concluded, were not dispensing check marks to white people so as to imbue their views with a counterfeit authority.

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Common combinations with imbue

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "imbue" in a sentence?
An example: "Fire is more offence-based, letting you hurl fireballs, summon pillars of flame, or imbue weapons with temporary buffs." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "imbue" from authentic English texts.
What does "imbue" mean?
Imbue means: To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
What are synonyms of "imbue"?
Common synonyms of "imbue" include: penetrate, colorise, colorize, color, hue, saturate, impregnate, soak. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "imbue" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "imbue", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.