IMBIBE in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for IMBIBE, such as:
1. Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit.
2. The dry soil can imbibe the rain quickly.
3. I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
4. Moreover, slaves are like other people, and imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
5. They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
2. The dry soil can imbibe the rain quickly.
3. I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
4. Moreover, slaves are like other people, and imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
5. They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
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Meanings and Examples of IMBIBE
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imbibe
v. drink in; absorb or take in as if by drinking
Classic Sentence:
1 He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment.
2 I do not willingly enter into arithmetical explanations with an artist like you, who fears to enter my study lest she should imbibe disagreeable or anti-poetic impressions and sensations.
3 The scout and his companions listened to this simple explanation with the interest of men who imbibe new ideas, at the same time that they get rid of old ones, which had proved disagreeable inmates.
4 Moreover, slaves are like other people, and imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
5 "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe," he said.
6 Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy's mature years.
7 Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity.
8 Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit.
9 It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.
10 I had somehow imbibed the opinion that, in the absence of slaves, there could be no wealth, and very little refinement.
11 I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
12 Egdon was her Hades, and since coming there she had imbibed much of what was dark in its tone, though inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto.
13 I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind.
14 They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
Example Sentence:
1 The dry soil can imbibe the rain quickly.
2 I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts.