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

William Alien records in the same year, 1808, the formation of a "Society for Diffusing Information on the Subject of Punishment by Death."

From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.

He bids the living Fountains burst the Ground, And bounteous spread their Silver Streams around: Down from the Hills they draw their shining Train, Diffusing Health and Beauty o'er the Plain.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Write of his faith; how humble, yet how bright, Diffusing round a clear and heavenly light; Write of his zeal; how quenchlessly it burned, How many a wanderer to the skies it turned!

From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various