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Example sentences for: impress

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

Some would have big media erect Fifth Columns within their walls, but navel-gazing doesn't automatically impress, as the Times-Mirror flagship Los Angeles Times learned after publishing a 30,000-word self-examination on the Staples Center scandal.
Speakers who want to impress their audiences know they have to telegraph key points and facts, then announce them, then repeat, dramatize, explain, and embellish.
In the office as in the courtroom legal language is intended to impress laymen.
It's a great way to keep up with the world and impress your friends with how busy you are.
Clintonian conciliation does not impress the Chinese, but economic punishment will.