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How to use impinge in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Impinge means to make a physical impact on. Example: “Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.”

Examples of impinge by meaning

verbTo make a physical impact on.

  • Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.

verbTo interfere with.

  • It is astonishing that the meaning of a single declarative sentence enshrined in the Bill of Rights has evaded judicial construction establishing, at a minimum, some bedrock level of state sovereignty upon which the federal government can not impinge.2006 Summer, Keith R. Fisher, “Toward a Basal Tenth Amendment: A Riposte to National Bank Preemption of State Consumer Protection Laws”, in...

verbTo have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

  • Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich.1971, George Steiner, “In a Post-Culture”, in In Bluebeard's Castle
  • Scarcity impinges on your mind.2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 3, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 56

More sentences with impinge

  • Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces.2009, Raina M. Maier et al., Environmental Microbiology, page 559. From the entry fomite
  • The ultimacy of God's eschatological revelation impinges proleptically on . . . and, then, it all gets over my head.2001, Mark Allan Powell, Chasing the Eastern Star, page 18. From the entry eschatological
  • The velocity imparted to the abrasive particles causes microchipping and erosion as the particles impinge on the workpiece.1992, ASM Materials Engineering Dictionary. From the entry microchip
  • With seats folded or erect, the downsloping roof impinges on cargo capacity; a Kia Spectra ’s hatch seems as big as an S.U.V.’s in comparison.2007 October 14, Lawrence Ulrich, “A Hatchback Plot Is Hatched”, in New York Times. From the entry downsloping
  • More importantly, the use of the delta tube prevents dangerous backsplashing of the agent that can occur when an impinging sparger is used improperly.2004, Yin Sun, Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Vapors, page 92. From the entry backsplash
  • How to transform the unhistory of the negativized, to make the anonymes impinge on history, is one way to put the matter.1993, David Ernest Apter, Democracy, Violence and Emancipatory Movements. From the entry unhistory
  • Still, it is not clear how far socialists ought to go in "restricting capitalist acts between consenting adults," since doing so seems to impinge, inadmissibly, on individuals' freedoms.1984, Andrew Levine, Arguing for socialism: theoretical considerations, page 65. From the entry inadmissibly
  • As Kurt Lewin's efforts to develop a psychotopology of personality clearly revealed, the environmental vectors which impinge upon personality must interact with psychovectors before behavioral direction is modified.1983, Hunter B. Shirley, Mapping the Mind, page 112. From the entry psychotopology
  • I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad. From the entry hint

Meaning of impinge

  1. verb To make a physical impact on.
  2. verb To interfere with.
  3. verb To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

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Questions about impinge in a sentence

How do you use impinge in a sentence?
Impinge is used as a verb. For example: “Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.”
What is a short sentence with impinge?
“Scarcity impinges on your mind.”
What does impinge mean?
Impinge means to make a physical impact on.

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