How to Use impressionable in a Sentence
impressionable
adjective- The book had a profound effect on his impressionable young mind.
- The teacher was accused of forcing his political beliefs on impressionable teenagers.
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There’s too many young guys in there that are impressionable.
—Kevin Santo, USA TODAY, 28 June 2017
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The young minds of children are as impressionable as a mound of clay.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
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Weapons and unchecked power were left in the hands of impressionable youths.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
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The 44-year-old made an impressionable mark with his suave style.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
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For impressionable kids, this can seem like a promising idea.
—Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025
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The younger mice, in their highly impressionable state, were.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
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Afi reads more like an impressionable early teen than an adult woman.
—Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 2 Nov. 2020
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But Yale had been young and impressionable, and maybe that’s why the reciting of names chafed.
—Rebecca Makkai, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
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These Pacers are too young and impressionable to be involved in an overt tank job.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2023
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The two of you have spent a decade together since your late teens, which is an impressionable age for anyone.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2023
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Who better to help Chelsea's young, impressionable players with how to live their lives?
—SI.com, 28 June 2019
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Football makes dreamers out of the impressionable youth who watch with hopes of playing at the same level one day.
—Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 26 Dec. 2019
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A lot of young, impressionable children.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Finding some of these little towns along the way are, to me, more impressionable and more exciting.
—Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2020
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In my impressionable eyes, no one was cooler than Mike Bailey.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
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Wet hair is so much more impressionable than dry, and disturbing the hair when wet could be detrimental to a smooth finish.
—Pia Velasco, Good Housekeeping, 20 Aug. 2021
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Just give us one more season of authentic baseball, and hope those impressionable kids learn to use all of the equipment.
—Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2020
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At the time, Pinkus and Lemieux were impressionable young Deadheads.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
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This story begins about two billion years ago, when the world, if not young, exactly, was a lot more impressionable.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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Then the impressionable children leave and Yuri slashes the painting in question with a knife.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
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The truth is that Jade was still an impressionable young woman still creating herself.
—Symeon Brown, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2022
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Kids their age are the most impressionable group there is, Obama reminded friends at the time, likening them to sponges.
—Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 24 June 2018
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That’s hugely important for a young, impressionable roster in the midst of a rebuild.
—Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2020
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The key to future success for brands and businesses, then, lies in reaching them at an early and impressionable age.
—Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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And with it, the platform to elevate its ideas to a wider audience of impressionable young people.
—Time, 3 Aug. 2023
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And no one can make more of an impression on an impressionable kid-athlete than a coach who is wise and tough, empathetic and all in.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 May 2021
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And then telling a young, impressionable kid that Canada’s never had an Olympic men’s gold medalist.
—Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
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The summers served as an awakening of sorts for the impressionable youth who briefly glimpsed better treatment for Black people.
—New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
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