DIFFUSION in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for DIFFUSION, 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. There seemed a general diffusion of cheerfulness on the occasion.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFUSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diffusion
 n.  act of dispersing or diffusing something
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  There seemed a general diffusion of cheerfulness on the occasion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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.
10  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.
11  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.
12  There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  The stiffness of the meeting soon gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: little groups were formed, and everybody grew comfortable.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  Echoes from those past times when they had exchanged tender words all the day long came like the diffused murmur of a seashore left miles behind.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
Example Sentence:
1  It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge.
2  Over time, the technology is diffused and adopted by other countries.
3  Hamilton wished to concentrate power; Jefferson to diffuse power.
4  I hope to bring a diffuse focus into sharper detail.
5  A lampshade is a fixture that covers the light bulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits.
6  The organization is large and diffuse.
7  The printing press helped diffuse scientific knowledge.
8  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.
9  Television is a powerful means of diffusing knowledge.