impress

In an era when politics has never been more visual, he'll need to dress to impress, whatever he decides to wear.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

“I can do 25 pull-ups that can impress you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Mr. Hayward isn’t trying to impress Lizzie Bennet; he’s communing with Mary, in all of her meek and geeky glory.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Our show is the classic, they are trying to impress dad, but dad is either dead or gone in a lot of these cases,” showrunner Ryan Condal said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

To that end, the costume she had fashioned was designed not for warmth or comfort, but solely to impress.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Others were less impressed, with reviews ranging from “average” to “nasty.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Dimon, who was a top executive there in those years, was impressed by Bisignano’s operational abilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Two months later, Nolan saw the tests and was impressed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

The expanded tournament has also provided plenty of drama and excitement, while many visitors were impressed by the stadiums, and security plans have been a success.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

I don’t like the way I ended that essay, so I’m not sure I care if anyone else is impressed with it.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

He won the nomination after impressing his CEA colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

But from the World Cup warm-up matches against New Zealand and Costa Rice, things started to look different - with Bellingham impressing.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

I was hellbent on impressing my guests with culinary theatrics and wild flavors, thinking the more labor I poured into my meals, the better the quality of my party.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

That might succeed in impressing you, and maybe you might admire me, but it’s not going to forge a connection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

I’d felt uncomfortable around him, especially while my dad was overly focused on impressing his older brother.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

And e’en when this beauty your bosom has blest, The brightest o’ beauty may cloy when possest; But the sweet yellow darlings wi’ Geordie imprest, The langer ye hae them—the mair they’re carest.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Since Sonnets thus in bundles are imprest, And euery drudge doth dull our satiate eare, Think'st thou my loue, shall in those rags be drest That euery dowdie, euery trull doth weare?

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

Note how each sentence is rounded out into fulness, until it is imprest upon your memory.

From Successful Methods of Public Speaking by Kleiser, Grenville

What distils   Immediate thence, no end of being knows;   Bearing its seal immutably imprest.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life by Carman, Bliss

I own belief may be imprest on the mind otherwise than by the force of reason.

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew