steeped 1 of 2

past tense of steep

steeped

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of steeped
Verb
There’s also a level of expertise that Questlove and Patel, by being so steeped in the music industry, were able to bring to the interview process. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Savannah, Georgia, is a city steeped with history and charm. Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025 Make sure to consult the steeping direction for each kind of tea, as different teas should be steeped for various lengths of time at different temperatures (hotter for black and herbal and cooler for green and white, for instance). Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025 This is a feature desired by many buyers and can benefit those who prefer their tea to be perfectly steeped and smooth. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steeped
Verb
  • His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Two frame types—the Breitling Chrono 0002 and Breitling Lémain 0001—are available directly from Cutler & Gross in different colors and editions, and each is suffused with nods to the Swiss watchmaker’s esteemed dive watch collection.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Get soaked on the log flume or see a concert at Pirates World?
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the storm’s heaviest rain has already soaked the Carolinas, but an additional 1 to 3 inches is possible from the mid-Atlantic to Northeast into Tuesday.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Liver Liver is an organ meat that contains more saturated fat than poultry or fish.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Bold hues are the name of the game, whether this means going for the kind of saturated, chili pepper–adjacent red that flooded the runways of labels like Ferragamo or embracing autumn’s fascination with all things deep purple, courtesy of an earrings pair that pays homage to the humble eggplant.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Stay in the countryside, walk through the orchards, meet the growers, and taste several dishes infused with cherry—from gazpacho to cake.
    Nigel Hack, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Everything was deliberate, crafted with great care, and infused with life.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tiny beads, big discoveries To trace how nanoplastics infiltrate skin cells, Xu’s team created their own plastic beads and immersed them in seawater collected off the Corpus Christi coast.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The rangy star has previously immersed himself in performances that require both physical transformation and pitching outside of his comfort zone (see his extraordinary work as abolitionist John Brown in the limited series The Good Lord Bird).
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As commissioner Cathy Engelbert took the microphone to congratulate the Las Vegas Aces and crown them the WNBA champions, fans in Phoenix drowned out her message with relentless booing.
    Shannon Ryan, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Linda’s unraveling escalates when her troubled client Caroline (Danielle Macdonald) emails her a video of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001 after developing postpartum psychosis.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Standing in a drenched shirt with goggles on his head amid Toronto’s division-clinching celebration, Guerrero didn’t promise any upcoming feature films.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The crowd, drenched but delighted, erupted as Messi and Allende celebrated.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In that four-year timeline, John had moved out several times and even impregnated a woman when he and Lorena were separated.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In Episode 7, audiences finally got to see the creature in action after Arthur (David Rysdahl) is impregnated by the specimen, paying homage to Kane’s (John Hurt) death on the Nostromo.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Steeped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steeped. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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