Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: imbued
IPA transcription: [,ɪmbj'ud]
Usage examples
  • She seemed suddenly to have become imbued with all the qualities of the perfect secretary.
  • It would become imbued with marvelous possibility, a thing for which royal military bureaus, imperial navies, would pay a great price.
  • Her mind was deeply imbued with religious feeling, and an unshaken confidence in God as her only trust; she connected herself with the A.M.E.
  • It was the remembrance of this, after the promise made to his father, that annoyed him the most. He was imbued with a feeling that it behoved him as a man to "pull himself together," as he would have said himself, and to live in accordance with certain rules.
  • "Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study-not a passion-it becomes the metaphysician to reason-but the poet to protest. Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in years; the one imbued in contemplation from his childhood; the other a giant in intellect and learning.
  • Meanwhile they please themselves with this zealous pursuit, and even dare to judge all others, whom they do not see adorned with such a glittering display of works; while, if they had been imbued with faith, they might have done great things for their own and others' salvation, at the same cost which they now waste in abuse of the gifts of God.