Example sentences for: steeped

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

  • Both USAT and the NYT report that a study just out concludes that new doctors, steeped though they may be in high-tech medicine, can't properly use a stethoscope.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • 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.

  • One can hardly expect to become steeped in the recondite style of a dictionary in such brief encounters, especially since they might well be for entirely different purposes.

  • Italy’s western approaches are guarded by two of the Mediterranean’s largest islands, Sardinia and Sicily, both rugged, mysterious, and steeped in history.


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