DIFFUSE in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for DIFFUSE, such as:

1. The organization is large and diffuse.
2. I hope to bring a diffuse focus into sharper detail.
3. Television is a powerful means of diffusing knowledge.
4. The printing press helped diffuse scientific knowledge.
5. Over time, the technology is diffused and adopted by other countries.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFUSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diffuse
 v.  spread out widely; scatter freely; pour out and cause to spread freely
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue to the reverend prioress.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
2  Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and apparently in indecision.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
3  My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  A red streak shot up, and a rosy light seemed to diffuse itself through the room.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  They made many signs which I did not comprehend, but I saw that her presence diffused gladness through the cottage, dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mists.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  To sum up the matter, it grew to be a widely diffused opinion that the Rev.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
8  And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
9  One day when Mr. Creakle kept the house from indisposition, which naturally diffused a lively joy through the school, there was a good deal of noise in the course of the morning's work.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
10  In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
13  In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
14  In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
15  There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  Hamilton wished to concentrate power; Jefferson to diffuse power.
2  I hope to bring a diffuse focus into sharper detail.
3  A lampshade is a fixture that covers the light bulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits.
4  The organization is large and diffuse.
5  The printing press helped diffuse scientific knowledge.
6  Ever present, they absorb the viscous lava of contempo culture through their pores, let it course through their veins ‘til a diffuse plexus of melodies and rhythms form, and then release the bubbly potion onto an unsuspecting audience.
7  Over time, the technology is diffused and adopted by other countries.
8  Television is a powerful means of diffusing knowledge.
9  It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge.