Example Sentences

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Diffusing molecules can’t travel very far, limiting how big a bacterium can be—or so the thinking went.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022

Diffusing the awkwardness of the Cubs-White Sox rivalry — with first lady Michelle Obama, as her husband noted, being a die-hard Cubs fan — was child’s play compared with the potential political tension.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2017

But see, in splendor bursting from the storm, Arches itself the many-colored bow, And ever-changeful, yet continuous form, Now drawn distinctly, melting now away, Diffusing dewy coolness all around!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

The sun in turn had lit the eastern sky,      Performed his circuit to the west, Diffusing light and heat below and high,      And there had sunk his golden crest.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.

S, Diffusing Screen, placed over front apertures, to evenly distribute the light.

From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by Munsell, A. H. (Albert Henry)