How to Use imbue in a Sentence

imbue

verb
  • A feeling of optimism imbues her works.
  • This simple step imbues the whole drink with the spice’s warmth.
    — Inés Anguiano, Bon Appétit, 15 Nov. 2023
  • These workers’ souls and their hearts and their dreams are imbued in those stones.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The team seemed to be imbued with a new sense of urgency and fight.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 28 July 2019
  • This came in handy when fatigue and injuries imbued the squad.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That helps keep them tender too, and imbues the sauce with their fat and flavor.
    — Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • To be imbued with elite physical skills is the common gift of youth.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Then Earth will cast a shadow on the moon, imbuing it with a red hue.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2026
  • As Tyler Potts points out, both are imbued with richness and warmth.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • As the meat cooks above, flavor-imbuing smoke seeps up from the bottom.
    — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2015
  • Ryan imbues her with depth and dimension, at once adorable and tender.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Hardy makes the character his own, and of course imbues him with some accents and quirks.
    — Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024
  • Baking the ham low and slow was a grand, hands-off way to imbue it with the caramel-dark nuances of the drink.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The wins built morale in the city and seemed to imbue the Joe with a larger-than-life persona.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
  • The ethics of reuse and upcycling were imbued in the creation of all the pieces.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Aug. 2024
  • His dawning awareness of others around him imbues him with a kind of heroism.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the tS is imbued with enough STI-ness to make a case.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The tobacco is imbued with prayer and its smoke takes that prayer to Creator.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Foer’s book ends with the midterms, so it is imbued with a sense of vindication.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Sesame seeds and soy sauce imbue an Asian flare, while brown sugar sweetens the pot and cayenne heats it up.
    — Sarah-Jane Bedwell, SELF, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But living near the bottom of the food chain has imbued them with a keen sense of their surroundings.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The icy blue tone with touches of gray resembles the sky, imbuing any space with a sense of calm.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 31 May 2023
  • To remember what tugged her out of a law practice in the first place and to imbue that into her teams.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • But like with all of his sets, Holmes imbues wisdom in even the most juvenile of jokes.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Scallions and cilantro, along with savories such as bean paste and tofu sauce imbue umami.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2026
  • But even that isn’t enough to imbue the story with real consequence.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Shelves are stocked with plenty of candles and diffusers that can imbue the scent of pumpkin spice in your home.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The wine reduction imbued the pears with a purple, syrupy sheen, and were tender enough to eat with a spoon.
    — Austin Bush, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • But they were also imbued with a sense of impenitent joy that was paramount to the show.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2023
  • Melania’s surfacings since the election have been sparse, wan, and imbued with pathos.
    — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017

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