How to Use suffuse in a Sentence

suffuse

verb

• Morning light suffused the room.
• That said, the whole debate is suffused with hypocrisy.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Turn off the heat and stir in the spices (this will help bloom the flavor of the spices and suffuse them into the fruitcake).
  — Bronwen Wyatt, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• Behind him, light from the bushfires suffused the sky like fresh blood.
  — Annette Lin, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
• The solar system is suffused with comet dust, and comet dust is dark.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Sides include such nice touches as a blue-cheese cole slaw, and a cup of rice suffused with lime and cilantro.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Shades of green and grey suffuse the space, alongside white displays and hardwood floors.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
• The air quality in Detroit was one of the worst in the country on Wednesday, as the wildfire smoke suffused the city in an acrid haze.
  — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• The super-bloom was just beginning to suffuse wide swaths of the slopes in purple and orange.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Right now, for instance, there's a rosy glow suffusing all the rooms facing the back terrace.
  — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 15 May 2013
• Light has just started to suffuse the sky, rosy pink hues bleeding into gray.
  — Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2019
• Chelsea had lost N’Golo Kanté to an injury at the break, a third cause of regret, and yet his spirit seemed to suffuse his team.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• Overhead, the gilded ceiling suffused the room with a lustrous glow.
  — Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• When Biden dropped out of the race, in July, a new energy suffused Ball’s effort.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
• Every line is just so funny but yet suffused with all this meaning and weight.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• One, my kitchen was suffused with the fruits’ intense, floral aroma.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
• Such messiness comes across as incidental to the magic-of-the-movies hooey that suffuses The Big Cigar.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
• But the idea that the nation was suffused with a sense of itself came through by the end of the ceremony, at which point the U.S. had already opted out.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 11 Feb. 2018
• Yellows, greens, and white suffuse the shiny foliage with a beautiful blush of rose-red running down the center of each leaf.
  — Marianne Willburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, his painterly life could be rich with color, never more so than when suffused with the natural world.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The event was suffused with sadness, given that the school was the site of the Feb. 14 shootings that have galvanized the new movement for more gun restrictions.
  — Alan Blinder, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The name suggested a warm place suffused with orange light, to mimic the South American sun.
  — Written By Annie Correal; Photographs By Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2017
• Holl’s luminous facades suffuse the building with light, but the absence of windows in the gallery spaces leaves them glare-free.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 24 June 2021
• Daphne is suffused with, and is about, specifically female kinds of fear.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
• Nostalgia for that lost era has suffused our politics since the 1970s.
  — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
• The Kinnear farm, the site of the murders, is suffused with golden light, and Harron used a Steadicam and rich colors to give the place a dreamlike quality.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 25 June 2018
• Climate crisis talk seems to suffuse just about every class.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
• Chic design devotees from around the world crowd the streets and cafés, suffusing the city with an inescapable buoyant energy.
  — Max Maeckler, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2019
• His 1975 film, which is now part of the Criterion Collection, feels like a long dream sequence, suffused in pink light.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
• For one thing, violent imagery suffuses even normal political rhetoric.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024