impress

Tuchel said the onus was now on players to impress in the international set-up.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Players pray as they always have: for protection from injury, from the embarrassment of a missed tackle or muffed punt, to impress their homecoming date or to attract the attention of scouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"In the 1840 narrative, Byfield sought to impress wealthy patrons by presenting himself as a dutiful soldier and deserving veteran," O'Keeffe says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

But the 6-foot-5, 265-pound Bailey, an undrafted free agent from Louisville, continues to impress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

“I serve now, sah,” Ugwu said, in English, and then wished he had said I am serving now, because it sounded better, because it would impress her more.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Not that the easily impressed senators, eager to exculpate a favored man, took note of the irony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Allegedly, somewhere out there De Palma’s original three-hour cut exists, one that so impressed Ellroy that he devoted an entire essay to singing its praises called “The Hillikers.”

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Cockenoe, the author writes, displayed a “linguistic dexterity” that impressed Eliot, who taught him to read and write English.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The same set of players, with a few additions and omissions, had already impressed at continental level.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Anya was partly impressed with his brothers’ dedication to staying in bed.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

So while federal agents swept Ole Miss’ building, Jones worked the phones, impressing upon deep-pocketed Mississippians the do-or-die nature of the coming weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Despite coming under criticism early in the tournament, Spence ended up starting and impressing in England's World Cup semi-final defeat by Argentina.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

As the company achieves notable growth — sales more than doubled in the latest quarter — it’s also impressing Wall Street with its profit performance.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Midfielder Merlin Rohl, 24, initially struggled for game time before impressing over four starts in May.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

I just love impressing the most popular boy in our class!

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

The ayre, in which My figures liknesse is imprest, will blast.

From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas

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 Robert Burns

Readers are imprest by the perfect ease and mastery with which a great variety of subjects are dealt with, his story "advancing with epic grandeur to its close."

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

So spoke, so wish'd much humbled Eve, but Subscrib'd not; Nature first gave Signs, imprest On Bird, Beast, Air; Air suddenly eclips'd After short blush of Morn.——————

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson

In the rule given by the A.P.A. for the substitution of ed for t, lasht and imprest are given as examples.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various