How to Use suffuse in a Sentence

suffuse

verb
  • Morning light suffused the room.
  • The galleries were suffused with the tang of iron and old cum.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The whole show is suffused in bright, warm sunlight.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Does that ideal suffuse your work?
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The solar system is suffused with comet dust, and comet dust is dark.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But on race days like this one, the air is suffused with something special.
    — Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Behind him, light from the bushfires suffused the sky like fresh blood.
    — Annette Lin, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Every line is just so funny but yet suffused with all this meaning and weight.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Light has just started to suffuse the sky, rosy pink hues bleeding into gray.
    — Coralie Kraft, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2019
  • This could have been a sad or pitiful moment; instead, it was suffused with warmth.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
  • Sides include such nice touches as a blue-cheese cole slaw, and a cup of rice suffused with lime and cilantro.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Shades of green and grey suffuse the space, alongside white displays and hardwood floors.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
  • For months, an uncanny sense of calm suffused the forest.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • One, my kitchen was suffused with the fruits’ intense, floral aroma.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
  • And, come evening, the ocean’s surface is suffused with gold as the sun dips beyond the horizon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • His brow is porcelain-smooth and suffused with light, his locks glossy and curled, his nose straight and regular.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • That day in the plastic factory was suffused with a loss that hadn’t happened yet.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The staff brings you spaghetti tossed with sweet little vongole clams suffused with garlic.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Right now, for instance, there's a rosy glow suffusing all the rooms facing the back terrace.
    — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 15 May 2013
  • Turn off the heat and stir in the spices (this will help bloom the flavor of the spices and suffuse them into the fruitcake).
    — Bronwen Wyatt, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Your clothes will be suffused with the scent of barbecue afterward.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Daphne is suffused with, and is about, specifically female kinds of fear.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
  • His dialogue was abundant and suffused with paradox and irony.
    — Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The super-bloom was just beginning to suffuse wide swaths of the slopes in purple and orange.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • One night, the living room will be suffused with a soft lavender glow; the next a bold yolk-yellow or a lambent hot pink.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But Souza’s film is much darker in tone, suffused with violence and weaponry.
    — Daniel Eagan, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, his painterly life could be rich with color, never more so than when suffused with the natural world.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • The oven’s smoke suffuses the flame-orange flesh of sweet, tiny beets piled in a quasi-salad atop a swoop of garlicky potato purée.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024

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