imbued

past tense of imbue

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of imbued Your morning of chores or physical activity has imbued you with a sense of achievement and a faint, pleasurable languor. Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026 Rather than filling the frames with dark shadows, the film is imbued with light and color. Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Bath products are imbued with a custom scent redolent of amber. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 The duo also tapped Bamford Watch Department to help bring the new timepiece imbued in racing heritage to life. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 July 2026 And so the demonization of the wolf was imbued with religious overtones, drawing from biblical metaphors of God as shepherd to his Christian sheep, and the wolf as false prophet. Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 That all culminated in a press conference at the FFF headquarters in Paris on Tuesday to announce Zidane’s appointment on a four-year contract, although this was imbued with far more drama than a standard managerial unveiling. Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 28 July 2026 The pieces in this collection are imbued with the handmade texture and visual style of the art form, which dovetails perfectly with Pierce & Ward’s reputation for creating and curating pieces that carry a sense of history. Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026 Not just any pop-up book, however, but the world’s largest — one imbued with an artist’s connection to the library, and one that celebrates the library itself amid its 100th anniversary. Paris Barraza, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbued
Verb
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • Everything is infused with melancholy, the unfailing indicator of the fundamental rift between humans and their natural environment.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Kim recommends pairing Cottage Door with an uplifting hue like Apricot Blush and Moonshot, along with light wood tones to create a space that’s infused with warmth and optimism.
    Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Imbued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbued. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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