DEEPEN in a Sentence

Learn DEEPEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

66 example sentences for DEEPEN, such as:

1. Her look deepened meditatively.
2. The rift within the party deepens.
3. The shadows deepened toward late afternoon.
4. Warships were sent in as the crisis deepened.
5. Miss Dartle,' I returned, 'you deepen the injury.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEEPEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deepen
 v.  make more intense, stronger, or more marked
 v.  make deeper
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
2  The look did indeed deepen as it rested on him, for even in that moment of self-intoxication Lily felt the quicker beat of life that his nearness always produced.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  The face in the bed seemed to deepen its expression of wild, but motionless distraction.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
6  Miss Dartle,' I returned, 'you deepen the injury.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
7  Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  Such higher training-schools tended naturally to deepen broader development: at first they were common and grammar schools, then some became high schools.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  Her cry steadied him, though it deepened his wrath and pity.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  The feeling of dread which had possessed her in the hall deepened as she saw his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
12  His smile deepened as he added with increasing assurance: "But you must let me take you to the station."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  The matter-of-course tone of Mrs. Trenor's greeting deepened her irritation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  Her look deepened meditatively.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  If this is not stopped, the financial crisis will deepen.
2  The music room had been made to reflect and deepen sounds.
3  Surviving tough times can really deepen your relationship.
4  The shadows deepened toward late afternoon.
5  His actions only deepened the rift between himself and the majority of Congress.
6  Warships were sent in as the crisis deepened.
7  The gloom deepened as the election results came in.
8  Parliament has not yet begun to combat the deepening economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.
9  There is now a mood of deepening pessimism about/over the economy.
10  Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
11  The rift within the party deepens.