suffuse
Example Sentences
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Climbing on it, I fashioned a lampshade with the paper: a cheery red glow at once suffused the bleak little room.
From Literature
Ms. Brown’s Erica tries to mediate the tension that suffuses the house, while Mr. Braithwaite’s Leni has a cool humor that also helps ease the fraught dynamic.
But with “All That’s Left of You,” she draws from family stories and her own childhood memories of visiting Palestine to make a film suffused with sadness and tension.
From Los Angeles Times
But rearing children is like a long baseball season suffused with an endless series of balls, strikes, hits and misses.
As you chew, the cardamom bits send out little bolts of flavor, suffusing the cake with a lovely scent of spice.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
