imbue

How To Use imbue In A Sentence

• At a period when all political ideology was imbued with religion, apostasy in any premodern state was a political crime. Times, Sunday Times
• You can become imbued with the idea that there's no point. Times, Sunday Times
• People had become terribly troubled," he said, trying hard to imbue the word "troubled" with sympathy. Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries
• Two of the ballet's encounters stood out, imbued with a kind of artistic brilliance befitting their underlying influence.
• The question, of course, is whether this quality can be imbued by training. Times, Sunday Times
• He is imbued with a quiet confidence, but he appreciates how precious that particular commodity is.
• Black crested gulls swirled along the atmosphere; the air was permanently imbued with the scent of salt and fish, fresh or otherwise.
• Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines. Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries
• As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
• He was imbued with a desire for social justice.