IMBIBE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for IMBIBE, such as:

1. Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit.
2. The dry soil can imbibe the rain quickly.
3. I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
4. Moreover, slaves are like other people, and imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
5. They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMBIBE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imbibe
 v.  drink in; absorb or take in as if by drinking
Classic Sentence:
1  He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
2  I do not willingly enter into arithmetical explanations with an artist like you, who fears to enter my study lest she should imbibe disagreeable or anti-poetic impressions and sensations.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
3  The scout and his companions listened to this simple explanation with the interest of men who imbibe new ideas, at the same time that they get rid of old ones, which had proved disagreeable inmates.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  Moreover, slaves are like other people, and imbibe prejudices quite common to others.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe," he said.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II
6  Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy's mature years.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
9  It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
10  I had somehow imbibed the opinion that, in the absence of slaves, there could be no wealth, and very little refinement.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
12  Egdon was her Hades, and since coming there she had imbibed much of what was dark in its tone, though inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
13  I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
Example Sentence:
1  The dry soil can imbibe the rain quickly.
2  I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts.