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How to use intensify in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Intensify means to render more intense. Example: “The cold weather intensified the paleness of the landscape.”

Examples of intensify by meaning

verbTo render more intense.

  • to intensify the heat or cold
  • to intensify colors
  • to intensify a photographic negative

More sentences with intensify

  • The cold weather intensified the paleness of the landscape.From the entry paleness
  • The Onassis–Niarchos antipathy intensified when Niarchos’ wife, Eugenia, was found dead at forty-three.2021, Olivia Williams, “Static in the swinging sixties”, in The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World’s Most Famous…. From the entry Athina
  • Paired with the seven members’ ending ments, the song’s message only intensified.2020 October 12, P. Claire Dodson, Sara Delgado, Natasha Mulenga, “BTS “Map of the Soul” ON:E Concerts: 11 Best Moments”, in Teen Vogue…. From the entry ment
  • Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened.2019, Ruth Kelly, The Little Vineyard in Provence. From the entry fear
  • Spain has been its own worst enemy as the controversy over “Catalexit” intensified.2017 October 20, “EU must intervene in Spain's 'Catalexit' crisis”, in The Boston Globe. From the entry Catalexit
  • When trials come and you fall into yourself and close your heart, suffering is increased and intensified.2012, Tau Malachi, The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas. From the entry fall into oneself
  • You will see them but not before your own world intensifies its outer eccentric movement or revolvement.2011, Elwood Babbitt, Wisdom from the Master Forces, page 165. From the entry revolvement
  • My desperate hunger and thirst for educational nourishment from my pals was intensified.2010, Chinazom B. C. Iwuaba, Shaped by Struggles, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry secondhanded
  • Unroasting vegetables in the dehydrator softens them, allowing their flavors to intensify and become almost sweet.2010, Alissa Cohen, Leah J. Dubois, Raw Food for Everyone. From the entry unroast
  • Despite intensifying speculation about his future, Mr Costello has not announced if he will recontest Higgins.2009 March 9, Michael Harvey, “Peter Costello bolsters team”, in Herald Sun. From the entry recontest
  • In leaching process, determination of waterhead is important for intensifying leaching, avoiding pollution, etc.1998, Yang Xianwan, CHM'98: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hydrometallurgy, Kunming, China, November 3-5, 1998, page…. From the entry waterhead
  • Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum.1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric…. From the entry archepiscopal
  • Having to feed an increasing number of mouths from fragmenting holdings, they intensified their agricultural practices.1996, Ernest Benz, “Population Change and the Economy”, in Sheilagh Ogilvie, editor, Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Volume 2…. From the entry surabundant
  • As for political Zionism, Strauss regards it as merely "continuing and intensifying the dejudaizing tendency of assimilation."1994, Kenneth L. Deutsch, Walter Nicgorski (editors), Leo Strauss - Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker, page 90. From the entry dejudaize
  • As Gorbachev's antialcoholism campaign intensified, it became increasingly difficult to purchase once-ubiquitous vodka.1989, David A. Harris, "AJC and Soviet Jews", Washington Jewish Week, in In the Trenches (volume 2, page 104). From the entry antialcoholism
  • It tries to entertain them through memes, which will intensify attitudes that support the interests of elites.1988, Noam Chomsky, Massey Lectures (Necessary Illusions). From the entry meme
  • This book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it.1987 [1919 January 1], John Reed, “Preface”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 11. From the entry bolsheviki
  • The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.1984, Ashton B. Carter et al., Ballistic Missile Defense, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry laydown
  • Spaghettification was due to gravity intensifying, metre by metre, in the approach to a black hole.1977, Nigel Calder, “Starcrusher”, in The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry spaghettification
  • The Chinese have intensified their ideological quarrel with Khrushchev to the point of an almost irreparable break.1963 July 12, Life, page 4. From the entry splittism
  • The films were enclosed in a casset, having superspeed intensifying screens.1940, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Norris Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations…. From the entry casset
  • As the lunar surface grew closer, that moon joy intensified.2026 April 7, Katrina Miller, “Houston, We Have No Problem. But We Do Have a Lot of ‘Moon Joy.’”, in NYT, archived from the original on 10…. From the entry moon joy
  • The crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.2013 September 24, Damien Ma, William Adams, “China's Next Great Challenge: Scarcity”, in The Atlantic. From the entry scarcity
  • The reverential tone intensified as this section progressed.2012, Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator as Critic, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry reverential
  • On the contrary, the differendum continues, even intensifies.2011, A. Ajens, Poetry After the Invention of América: Don’t Light the Flower, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry differendum
  • The markets are in meltdown, intensifying the downward pirouette of what the international financier George Soros has called "Greece's death spiral".2010 April 28, Malcolm Brabrant, “Greece's ‘death spiral’”, in BBC News, retrieved 14 Sep 2011. From the entry death spiral
  • So why would I wanna intensify my trip, you know?2010 January 21, Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney, Kristin Evans, “Part III Drug pleasures risks and combinations”, in Youth, Drugs, and…. From the entry candy flip
  • The vicious cycle of repression was upgeared and intensified.1987, Jasawanta Siṅgha Kam̆wala, The Other Zafarnamah. From the entry upgear
  • Stockable gaps are subject to reduction by intensified management.1980, The Forestry chronicle - Volume 56, page 59. From the entry stockable
  • She has been intto prison ministry work for several years and has never slowed up, but intensified her love.1976 December 18, John Gibbs, “A True Sister”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4. From the entry slow up
  • This steepness was intensified on all sides by an artificial intrenchment which divided the promontory from the mainland.1928, Edith Heal, Robin Hood, Rand McNally & Company, pages 31–2. From the entry intrenchment
  • Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry snarling
  • Both combinations will create intensified effects, and both doses should be lowered when combining two substances, whether for Candy Flipping or Nexus Flipping.2024 April 10, The Bunk Police, “Before You Nexus Flip, Here’s What to Know”, in BunkPolice.com, archived from the original on 17 May 2025. From the entry candy flip
  • The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitter blame game now being played out at the top of the Tory party.2022 November 12, Toby Helm, Phillip Inman, “Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, in The Guardian. From the entry blame game
  • This dynamic is intensified in queer worldmaking; queer worldmaking is not only making queer worlds in the spaces afforded by dominant normativity.2019, Jo Lindsay Walton, Ed Luker, “Introduction: Working Late”, in Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry…. From the entry worldbreaking
  • Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian. From the entry capture
  • Nineteenth-century culture bears witness to a gradually intensifying anxiety about the structure of the self and the security of its lodgment in the world.2000, Nick Mansfield, chapter 2, in Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway, New York: University Press, page 25. From the entry lodgment

Meaning of intensify

  1. verb To render more intense.
  2. verb To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Full definition of intensify

Questions about intensify in a sentence

How do you use intensify in a sentence?
Intensify is used as a verb. For example: “The cold weather intensified the paleness of the landscape.”
What is a short sentence with intensify?
“to intensify colors”
What does intensify mean?
Intensify means to render more intense.

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