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How to use suffuse in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb, adjective

Suffuse means to spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe. Example: “The entire room was suffused with a golden light.”

Examples of suffuse by meaning

verbTo spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

  • The entire room was suffused with a golden light.

verbTo spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.

  • The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
  • Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87
  • His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic

adjectiveSuffused; diffuse.

  • This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243
  • Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN

More sentences with suffuse

  • Transcendence is the key characteristic of the sacration model — the world is suffused with the divine.1976, Robert Bundy, Images of the future: the twenty-first century and beyond, page 179. From the entry sacration
  • Earlier this year, the writer John Ganz argued that “Groyperism totally suffuses the cultural environment of the right.”2025 March 28, Charlie Warzel, quoting John Ganz, “The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account”, in The Atlantic, archived from the…. From the entry Ganz
  • Unlike the other types, even with an iriscope, it's very difficult to ascertain the fibre structure as the iris is deeply suffused with pigment.2023, Sarah Donoghue, Modern Iridology. From the entry iriscope
  • From boardroom to terrace via the dug-out, such an evangelical zeal suffuses Manchester City's new mission that they should really be renamed the Blue Moonies.2009 August 15, Henry Winter, “Manchester City's Blue Moonies have their faith rewarded”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry moonie
  • But it is not limited to such elements, for they are but pieces of a mesmerizing global mediology that suffuses consciousness everywhere.2001, Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry mediology
  • In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely heat flooded her body.1990, Candace Schuler, Wildcat, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry Stacey
  • Suffusing the final pages of the novel with an appropriately and characteristically Chabonesque note of nostalgia, Chabon describes a meeting between the former friends Julius and Titus.2014, John Joseph Hess, “Quentin Tarantino and the Paradox of Popular Culture in Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue”, in Jesse Kavadlo, Bob…. From the entry Chabonesque
  • Light, fresh and evanescent, they are suffused with the glimmery yellowness of East End light; it’s not quite yellow or white, but a color somewhere in between.2009 June 7, Benjamin Genocchio, “The Glimmer of East End Light”, in New York Times. From the entry glimmery

Meaning of suffuse

  1. verb To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
  2. verb To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
  3. verb To pour underneath.

Full definition of suffuse

Questions about suffuse in a sentence

How do you use suffuse in a sentence?
Suffuse is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “The entire room was suffused with a golden light.”
What is a short sentence with suffuse?
“The warmth suffused his cold fingers.”
What does suffuse mean?
Suffuse means to spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

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