How to Use imprint in a Sentence

imprint

1 of 2 verb
  • Their names are imprinted on one of the leaves of the tree.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 6 June 2019
  • The tracks of his bulldozer are still imprinted in the earth.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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 music and design of retro games have the ability to imprint on a young gamer’s heart.
    Anne McCarthy, Wired, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The one drawback is that the pattern becomes imprinted on the bottom of your cakes.
    Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But in memory, as if imprinted on the sky, the towers are still there.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Then create symbols to imprint these stories on the hearts of your people.
    Braven Greenelsh, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The fish imprint on the water of the local area and in a miracle of fisheries science and nature are able to find it as adults.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • This is a scene that will forever imprint itself on your mind.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Thousands of years before the first Jew lived, some Sumerian geeks had a startup: use a stick to imprint marks on a piece of mud.
    Yuval Noah Harari, Time, 12 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
  • Bryan’s Belting Bronco imprint scores its first placement atop the Hot 100.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Regardless, Dead Ringers had imprinted on her in a big way.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Every letter of this love story will be imprinted on our hearts for years to come.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Print Charming This imprinting process leaves a pattern in the shape of the metalens that can then be etched onto the substrate.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • But there was enough raw power in the original video to imprint Bryant’s voice on a movement, harking back to the protest anthems of the civil-rights era.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Keep in Mind 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
  • This ironing board is not as sturdy as other options, and the middle fold line can imprint on clothes.
    Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The rearing pond is used to hold and imprint juvenile chinook salmon so that mature fish then return to the Pike River to spawn.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2020
  • After all, any true Xbox fan would want all of their food imprinted with the Xbox logo and their clothes dyed green after every wash.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • With an 8' by 10' carpet at the ready, use any wall stencils and a foam stencil brush to easily imprint your own designs.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Kobe became the first athlete to have his hands and feet imprinted in cement at the iconic Hollywood venue in 2011.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • But the main star of the show is obviously the ability to imprint the Xbox logo into your bread like a real gamer.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Bradley doesn’t imprint the amateur footage with a date on-screen; however, the news program captured in the background places it in 2003.
    Samantha N. Sheppard, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Remember that foot imprint your parents brought home from the hospital when you were born?
    Lindsay Berra, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
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imprint

2 of 2 noun
  • We saw an imprint of a bike tire on the dirt trail.
  • The novel, out now, is the third to be published under the imprint.
    Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 5 July 2023
  • Angela looks down at her shirt, at the Rorschach imprint of Will’s damp chest.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Despite only posting up here for the better part of 10 years, the bassist left an imprint on the abode in more ways than one.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
  • The words had made a permanent imprint on the SMU receiver.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • This marks the end of a bitter feud that’s been ongoing for more than three years after Megan signed with the imprint in 2018.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Shortly after the first media timeout, a healthy Jett Howard made his first imprint on the game.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The vividness of Liszt’s imprint belies the vagueness of his identity.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Someone would be walking by the imprint, notice it, look more closely at it and laugh.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Fonts and styles of imprints were not what was used by Maserati at the time those vehicles were made, the document asserts.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There, in an imprint in the dirt, spindly acacia branches – several inches long with new, green leaves – push out from the soil.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2015.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The imprint specializes in dance music but isn’t exclusive to that genre.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Wildfire smoke made an imprint on pollution trends in three-quarters of all U.S. states, the research found.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The latest song from Jai Paul’s Paul Institute imprint has been released.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The band announced the new imprint, Romantic Records, in a recent social media post.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The exchanges have left a significant imprint on bears today: About 10 percent of the DNA in brown bears comes from polar bears.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The boy’s studies left a deep imprint on his later life as an artist, his politics and his principles.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Irvine says dance music's popularity boom has been a win for the imprint.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Vogel will now look to put his defensive imprint on a team that didn’t play at a high level on defensve in the postseason.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
  • The imprint was named for their office space — an actual tool shed in the yard of a house in their native Maidstone, 90 minutes southeast of London.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2023
  • At first glance, Kerr’s strategy for Game 2 should be simple: go all-in on small ball in hopes of limiting Davis’ imprint and getting more looks around the rim.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • Experts have to work backward from those footprints and other traces through the list of creatures that could have possibly left such imprints.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The song was written by Pablo Preciado (Matisse) and marks the return of the imprint sound of Intocable.
    Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Pelicans and puffins grace other imprints of this company, and there was even a ptarmigan series of puzzle books in the 1940s.
    Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The as-yet-untitled book will be published in 2025 (no exact date yet) via Maria Shriver’s publishing imprint, the Open Field.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Caedmon, which is now an imprint of HarperCollins, would go on to earn dozens of Grammy nominations.
    Sam Dolnick, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The book will be published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2024.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023

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