impress

The point of the date is to get to know the person better, not to attempt to impress them with how much you can afford to spend.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Fitness and mental readiness are highly important, and some newcomers might just have that to impress the new manager.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

For most of Tomlinson’s life, she regarded her mother as a flawless, devout Christian whom she desperately yearned to impress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Back-to-back quarters of standout profits have raised expectations and made it especially difficult to impress traders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

No impatient driver could impress this dog; he moved for no one and nothing.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Kim, who has long championed Korean artists internationally, was particularly impressed with the diversity of Korean art that RM has amassed, including its “remarkable range.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

But not all experts are impressed with the accord.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

She was impressed that the real Skye Prince was calling out the copycat accounts and that she insisted the beds would be free.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Brown was impressed by Rangers manager Derek McInnes' change of approach in the season's first derby, change to a 3-5-2 shape and going man for man with Celtic's front three.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Mr. Pinkerton was impressed by what he calls your ‘mastery of disguise’ in both the fortune-teller case and the Maroney adventure,” Aunt Kitty said, her hand slowly running a dustrag over the long fireplace mantel.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

A product of Manchester City's youth academy, Harwood-Bellis joined Southampton for £20m in 2024 after impressing on loan.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

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

Buddhas float overhead like a divine ideal but also weigh down on their visitors, impressing on us the difficulty of ever reaching enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I stared at them, impressing them forever on my mind, wondering why they had the power to touch me, to sadden me, as though they were children that did not want me to go away.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The chosen angels, and the spirits blest, Celestial tenants, on that glorious day My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

I own belief may be imprest on the mind otherwise than by the force of reason.

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner

He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi

His version is this:— "Enough for me, if to some feeling breast, My lines a secret sympathy convey; And as their pleasing influence is imprest, A sigh of soft reflection heave for Gray."

From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various

And as two zones the northern heaven restrain, The southern two, and one the hotter midst, With five the Godhead girt th' inclosed earth, And climates five upon its face imprest.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard