Example sentences for: steeped

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It was in many ways an almost inevitable project for me: I am from Chicago, Bellow's turf; my first biography, of Delmore Schwartz, had closely paralleled Humboldt's Gift , Bellow's novel about Schwartz; I was steeped in the Jewish immigrant world he wrote about.

  • But it bravely faces what those magazines, steeped in feminist ideology, steadfastly avoid" (Carolyn Graglia).

  • Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.


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