suffused

past tense of suffuse

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of suffused 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 But will this common sense prevail in an era suffused with division and mutual political loathing? U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025 The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025 His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry. Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffused
Verb
  • Taylor’s cerebral bent is nothing new, but here, it’s imbued with a fresh, tentative sweetness, and anchored by a genuinely swoony summer romance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That’s because, as it’s repeated, the masses will start treating the meme as if it’s imbued with meaning.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For instance, Bolsonaro’s flunkies penetrated the government agency that handled film distribution.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The 225-grain handload had not penetrated the skull, but had probably torn through jaw muscles and ranged into the neck.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My husband loves that this particular style is infused with a touch of precious metal to give off a slight metallic sheen.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to cushy armchairs, cafe tables and a retail counter, the new space has a sweeping bar that offers alcohol-free or hemp-infused versions of hard liquors.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Despite its speculative premise, the series captures the loneliness that has pervaded society since the COVID pandemic and the dread of a future in which artificial intelligence might render human interaction obsolete.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Soul remakes of classic hip-hop songs have since pervaded social media.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The event had seemingly permeated the entire town.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The smells of urine and bat poop permeated.
    Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the recent past, Japanese companies like Toyota and Sony had flooded America’s market with high quality but inexpensive cars and electronics, harming the business of great American brands, including General Motors and RCA.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In 1700, for example, the Dutch flooded part of West Africa with perhaps as much as 40 million pounds of gunpowder, enough for well over half a billion musket shots; the world population at the time may have been as low as 600 million people.
    Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With good reason, as the history of this Louisiana city is filled with lore of witchcraft, voodoo, and even vampires.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Carrasco notes that the bear and woman video was posted by an account filled with Sora videos, which signals to him that the viral animal encounter clip is AI as well.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Suffused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffused. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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