Imbue

The animal terms imbue the loved one with the characteristics humans ascribe to each animal. ❋ Unknown (1980)

Since when do mysterious rifts "imbue" magical abilities? ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

Sitting on the pitch and abandoning your teammates is not the action of a winner, that's not how you 'imbue' a winning culture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bent may have attended Oliver Cromwell's old school, but growing up in peaceful Huntingdon was never going to imbue him with remotely similar mental toughness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Like the great universities, Oaksterdam seeks to imbue its students with a vision of the world and the zeal to go forth and change it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the youngest grandma in prime time, Plimpton's Virginia could have been trite, but the veteran star has managed to imbue the character with warmth and joy without letting up on the snark. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Smith describes Mapplethorpe's art thus: "Robert took areas of dark human consent and made them into art... sought to elevate aspects of male experience, to imbue homosexuality with mysticism." ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

It helps imbue Super with an uncommon life, warmth, and energy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's also my hope that by dint of my recent experience at the White House, I can imbue this blog with a sense of political realism that's sometimes missing in critical commentary. ❋ Jared Bernstein (2011)

"People had become terribly troubled," he said, trying hard to imbue the word "troubled" with sympathy. ❋ Rachel Cooke (2010)

There's no better way to imbue yourself with a dose of Texan swagger — and the testosterone rush will embolden you for the trial to come: flying home. ❋ Kate Bolick (2011)

But all I can hope is that my writing is strong enough to imbue each new set of characters with enough specialness to win over new and established readers, and to make some of those readers care about the overarching plot too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her tone is more silver than gold, but she knows how to subtly imbue a phrase with feeling, when to color the violin sound to reflect changes in the character of a piece, and when to simply let the music speak for itself. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)

Adherence to theories of how our world and various systems in it work may imbue the worldscape with a sense of authenticity. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

But if Montgomerie can imbue his 12 players with the focused serenity that settled over him whenever he pulled out a club on Europe's behalf, Celtic Manor could become the scene of the triumph that seals his legend. ❋ Richard Williams (2010)

Where gilding and bumphing are employed, we may see a deliberate thematic import to these, with the former used to imbue the worldscape with a relevant aesthetic, and the latter used as intratextual commentary. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

[work] imbued with the [revolutionary] [spirit] ❋ Tom90914 (2007)

[Kenneth], why must you [imbue] my lemon crisp with the sweet scent of your strawberry [wafer]? ❋ Timbotimbotimbo (2018)

Imbue Faction [PARKOUR] ❋ Shnababula (2009)