Example sentences for: steeped

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

  • Taniguchi's quiet, thorough style (steeped in Japanese modernism) beat out more flamboyant entrants.

  • To speak of earning something you must use a word that also means winning . The only word for chairman is presidente . Chairmen do preside, of course, but to the English speaker steeped in a tradition of civic committees and PTA the functions of a chairman go beyond simply presiding.

  • Perhaps one of our readers steeped in legal lore would care to comment on whether there is a legal distinction between these terms or whether the distinction resides solely in the minds of lay speakers.

  • It is significant because its enormous popularity reflects the public's interest in metaphor based on classical and cultural references understandable only to those steeped in the literature, not to those who, having learned to read, seldom read anything but a dime novel, a popular magazines, or a newspaper.

  • He's steeped in Russian melancholy, but he isn't pickled--those eyes are hard and mean.


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