Example sentences for: immerse

How can you use “immerse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At their best, these films immerse you once again in all the joys and anxieties of adolescence.

  • Neither Potok nor Abraham can immerse the reader in the minutiae of Hasidic life the way Goodman does in the particulars of separatist German ultra-Orthodoxy.

  • Much of the essay takes Du Bois to task for his "inadequate interpretation of the human condition"--translation: Du Bois didn't fight hard enough for the rights of women, homosexuals, and other oppressed minorities and doesn't seem to have thought much about writers like Tolstoy or Kafka--and his "inability to immerse himself fully in the rich cultural currents of black everyday life."

  • As you cross the bridge, stop in the middle to immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the people, the blazing neon, and the Dotomburi River below you.

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.


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