How to Use imprint in a Sentence

imprint

1 of 2 verb
  • My soul was kind of imprinted with that.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • His face is still imprinted on her life.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • That stuff imprints itself on you.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2026
  • This is a scene that will forever imprint itself on your mind.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The tracks of his bulldozer are still imprinted in the earth.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Other birds might have imprinted on humans and do not know how to hunt their own food.
    — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Eva has already imprinted the photo on her phone case.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Eva has already imprinted the photo on her phone case.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Down on the ground, animal tracks could be seen imprinted in the moist grass and moss.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • Every letter of this love story will be imprinted on our hearts for years to come.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • But in memory, as if imprinted on the sky, the towers are still there.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The music and design of retro games have the ability to imprint on a young gamer’s heart.
    — Anne McCarthy, Wired, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Then create symbols to imprint these stories on the hearts of your people.
    — Braven Greenelsh, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • There’s something funny about those things imprinting your mind.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The yellow, black and chocolate labs will be trained for three weeks using a process called odor imprinting.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
  • Everyone has bits of their life that fully imprint on themselves.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The one drawback is that the pattern becomes imprinted on the bottom of your cakes.
    — Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Every millisecond of the track is imprinted with an effect, and yet the mix has miles of space.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Except for a few coins, only the year in which they were minted is ever imprinted on them.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2025
  • This ironing board is not as sturdy as other options, and the middle fold line can imprint on clothes.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
  • Remember that foot imprint your parents brought home from the hospital when you were born?
    — Lindsay Berra, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, if a newborn goose saw a fox and did not imprint on it, that would be evidence of a brain disorder.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2020
  • Tire marks were imprinted in the dirt on the front edge of the lawn where the car had broken through the fence before hitting the house.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • The question, then as now, was how the winners would seek to imprint their values and beliefs on the nation.
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Medieval clergy used cast-iron tongs imprinted with patterns to hold the dough in place and quickly bake it over a fire.
    — Joan Bailey, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Drought cycles imprint a sort of barcode on trees’ rings, which can help identify not just where a piece of wood came from, but when.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The current residents are now imprinting it with their own story.
    — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And the smallest debutants have imprinted their mark without winning a match.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • The mug press features one-touch settings and a patented heat plate that imprints the design onto the mug in minutes.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The hyenas were woozy but not docile enough for blood and hair samples to be collected or for their paws to be imprinted on round pats of clay.
    — Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019

imprint

2 of 2 noun
  • We saw an imprint of a bike tire on the dirt trail.
  • There was talk of a video, an ode to an imprint of time and place.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026
  • His shoes appeared to match imprints left at the scene.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The others all had much more time to put their imprints on the team.
    — ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • And Pasquantino will have his imprints on it all.
    — Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The first season is pivotal for a new coach to put his imprint on a team.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • All that remains is a vague imprint in the muddy ground.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The massacre left an imprint on Mitchem.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026
  • The novel, out now, is the third to be published under the imprint.
    — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 5 July 2023
  • But nothing came close to the cultural imprint of that bass drop.
    — Ryan Brennan april 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The couple raised their three kids across the street from where the imprint used to be located.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Still, his imprint can be found at dozens of restaurants in the city, and his legacy will live on there as well.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Angela looks down at her shirt, at the Rorschach imprint of Will’s damp chest.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Her design still leaves its imprint on the borough today.
    — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Its secular cast was not its only imprint.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Someone would be walking by the imprint, notice it, look more closely at it and laugh.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Her only callout is that imprints from paw prints, chairs, and table legs set pretty deeply on this rug.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The dusty, white imprints appear to be paw prints, though their origin remains unclear.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Megan Kind, of Chicago, was on a tall ladder putting her imprint on the wall.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • That talk left an imprint because Smith cared more about Waller the man than the player.
    — Omar Kelly updated October 17, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The imprint could have been created by an eastern grey squirrel or a fox squirrel.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But Penguin soon signed her up to lead the new Penguin Press imprint.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The shape is made up of individual imprints of toes, claws, legs, and a tail attached to a body.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Irvine says dance music's popularity boom has been a win for the imprint.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The event left an imprint even on those who weren’t among the hostages, such as people like Beach working dispatch.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The words left an immediate imprint on Sack.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The green flash that imprints on the back of your eyes, right as the sun dips into the horizon—that’s Ragtime.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Almaty’s streets bear the imprint of its layered history.
    — Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Bruises on her neck were consistent with muzzle imprints.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2026
  • From Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
    — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025

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