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Example sentences for "impregnate"

Lexicographically close words:
imprecations; imprecatory; impregnability; impregnable; impregnably; impregnated; impregnates; impregnating; impregnation; impresario
  1. And thence its rapid prosperity, its teeming growth in a few years, friaries arising upon all sides, and the third Order* so invading the secular population as to impregnate and absorb it.

  2. Such are the names given by the natives of the Molucca Islands and in the Indian Archipelago to a deadly poison which is used to impregnate the heads of their arrows.

  3. This is most probably the fact; these substances may impregnate the body with some quality obnoxious to the reptile.

  4. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.

  5. To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.

  6. To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

  7. To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.

  8. The kind of spawn made as I have recommended usually falls into small pieces, more likely to impregnate the earth quickly than the stiff, brick-like pieces of nursery spawn.

  9. To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.

  10. Could no divine dew again impregnate it with innocence, render it like the souls of little children, who at the slightest caressing touch of the sacred legend give themselves to it entirely?

  11. When celery is not in season, a quarter of a dram of celery seed, or a little of the essence, will impregnate half a pint of sauce with all the flavour of the vegetable.

  12. Not only is it rapid and certain in its germ-destroying action, but it also possesses an attribute denied many other antiseptic agents, namely, the power to penetrate and impregnate the tissues.

  13. By this judicious and accurate regulation, a ram is enabled to impregnate near twice the number of ewes he would do if turned loose among them, especially a young ram.

  14. The wild Dates impregnate themselves, but the cultivated trees do not, without the assistance of art.

  15. To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.

  16. Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

  17. To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.

  18. To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

  19. To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

  20. To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

  21. To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.

  22. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

  23. To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.

  24. To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

  25. To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

  26. To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.

  27. To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.

  28. Hath been assign'd you, from this face remove The harden'd veil, that I may vent the grief Impregnate at my heart, some little space Ere it congeal again!

  29. Cinctur'd thus, Sometime Latona's daughter we behold, When the impregnate air retains the thread, That weaves her zone.

  30. There are many substances which impregnate common air in a very remarkable manner, but without making it noxious to animals.

  31. In order to impregnate fluids with any kind of air, as water with fixed air, I fill a phial with the fluid larger or less as I have occasion (as a fig.

  32. To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

  33. Clearly when last it was an impregnate ovum or some still lower form of life which resulted in that impregnate ovum.

  34. Drop out my father's and mother's lives between the dates of their being impregnate ova and the moment when I became an impregnate ovum.

  35. Then there is identity between me as an impregnate ovum and my father and mother as impregnate ova.

  36. There is no identity of matter between me as I now am, and me as an impregnate ovum.

  37. In like manner, the impregnate ovum from which the mule's mother was developed would be backed by the assurance that it had done what it is going to do now a hundred thousand times already.

  38. There is far more of all these things common to the impregnate ovum and the ovum immediately before impregnation, or again between the impregnate ovum, and both the ovum before impregnation and the spermatozoon which impregnated it.

  39. There will always remain some particles which will not only soil the size but impregnate it with gall, and which will cause the entire uselessness of size and color.

  40. If we desire to marble books or papers we impregnate them with alum water, allow them to dry partly and take the edge from the size.

  41. So Hermaphrodites although they include the parts of both sexes, and may be sufficiently potent in either; yet unto a conception require a separated sex, and cannot impregnate themselves.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impregnate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.