impress upon

Example Sentences

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“I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you, I am like you. I am no better than you. I am a 960 SAT guy,” he said.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

We didn’t impress upon him that he needed to make the decision there and then.

From BBC • May 13, 2024

Dr. Melody McCloud: She says that, “...my chief desire in presenting this book is to impress upon somebody's mind the possibility of prevention.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2023

“I cannot impress upon you more how indelible her memory and her mentorship is in relationship to maintaining the relationship to China,” Newsom said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

There was a wicked point to all the sewing and cooking that they were trying to impress upon me, the tedious lessons I had been spurning and ducking.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly