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    1. to impress others with their status, hairstyle, new dresses


    2. not impress by what we wear but by what our heart offers


    3. If it was true that God is impress with how you look, He


    4. not to impress God or other believers


    5. Something to really impress her


    6. ‘It must have been a few years ago perhaps at the theatre in Bridgwater?’ he went on, clearly hoping to impress


    7. The Kid and the others, Matthew and Mark as I have come to call them as the misting of memory reduces them in my mind’s eye, the ones who spoke about their God and their belief, they all tried to impress on me the truth of love and vengeance


    8. trip with this person that they are trying to impress; they are going to be living the rest of their lives with the person


    9. Imagine that you don’t have to impress anyone


    10. I stayed in the car, while my father registered for the night and my mother tried to reason with me and bring some sense of reality back, trying to impress on me the meaning and consequences of my actions

    11. We studied our glasses of lemonade or beer while he was trying to draw attention and impress


    12. They are as transparent as plastic wrap and will not impress


    13. This seemed to impress everyone


    14. He thought of reading 1 Corinthians 7 to her, but she wasn’t devout enough for scripture to impress her


    15. If you can find one just after birth, and impress it when their eyes first open, you have a friend for life


    16. ‘Yes, I remember – he moved away from the area after Showboat but, yes, he was trying hard to impress me, I think, and, as you so graphically put it, was giving it plenty of wellie


    17. He just wanted to impress Naria with all they had accomplished here


    18. The wrong time is when someone is trying to impress you


    19. It’s not that I go out of my way to impress or appear intellectual, but I really can’t pretend that watching reality TV is my one passion in life


    20. In their spare time they go to the gym and try to impress young women in that depressing way that forty-year-old alpha males have

    21. They love the holiday season as it provides them with a chance to wear singlets and impress dumb blondes


    22. The showers at the revue had been not much better – limited hot water doesn’t go far between a chorus of twelve hot, sweaty dancers with monied admirers to impress


    23. It reminded her of an extremely expensive glass of well chilled white wine … the sort she’d enjoyed in the early days, back when Ozzie was trying to impress her


    24. chess player and often was able to impress his friends


    25. I wonder if they have different purposes or if it’s all just a big con to impress the punters … Anna, you cynic!


    26. impress itself upon the crowd


    27. shit so you can impress us and maybe have a friend or two


    28. He’d even gone so far as to buy a leather jacket with the fringe across his chest, to impress the rugged old hands, Jim had arranged to help


    29. impress him,’ she directed her gaze back towards Jean


    30. You won't be offended, Watson? You will realize that among your many talents lying is not one, and that if you had shared my secret you would never have been able to impress Smith to come here

    31. In a foolish attempt to impress Solo Ki, Theodorous dashed forward, his axe blowing the undead back like a battle ram


    32. What these sacred texts are trying to impress upon us is how the universe


    33. either thinking they have to or that it will impress the boss


    34. And from that moment, while he had just seen proof of her talent and ability to be quite the asset, one to even impress their cynical Guild Master, he also knew that she was different


    35. One of the soldiers stopped him to impress upon him the need for able-bodied sons of Skyrim in Ulfric’s army


    36. Darniil waited until he had their attention again before he continued in the same confident tone, using his hands to gesture from time to time to impress the matter upon the king’s mind


    37. He stuck his face down in the expensive metal plates that Tragus had bought to impress him


    38. The mischievous blond recruit, always eager to impress his DRAFT


    39. Why did he always believe that his dreams were from the gods and had some sinister, hidden meaning? Maybe it was the only way he could keep the nation in check, making up these dreams to impress upon them his close ties to the gods


    40. “Wait until you see the Hanging Gardens – that will certainly impress you

    41. She would impress on each of them that she was the only one they could stick their cocks into


    42. Within this list, two persons impress me more due to their unique abilities and they are:


    43. Nothing we do will ever surprise or impress God and there is nothing that we can say or do, that would ever affect God’s favour towards us


    44. Jill had put on her most sophisticated, lady-like façade, and Grant was trying hard to impress her, as Mr


    45. It was obvious he wanted to impress Jill


    46. During the night we had talked on and off to Jack and Owen and I told them a bit about Gallipoli which seemed to impress them and after this they treated us as old sweats


    47. This seemed for some reason to impress the Staff Officers but I don’t know why as all we did was walk past a load of white tape on the ground in line abreast


    48. hard at what he did, but he did not try to impress anyone with the way he was dressed, but he was impressive in his own way


    49. a client I wanted to impress


    50. Then you can impress that client by asking intelligent questions













































    1. "Wow," Jorma was impressed with this revelation, though he found it hard to picture


    2. You cannot be impressed and awe with what


    3. Nancy was quite impressed already, but she tried to appear nonchalant about the whole thing


    4. She was impressed with that, three times as fast as the fastest thing in the air


    5. Could that be true? She was pretty impressed so far, but not willing to go that far


    6. What impressed her the most was that they were able to call up such learned information and drill so deeply into the science behind it and get the 3-d plot


    7. "Wow,” Saya was impressed


    8. Adrian was very impressed


    9. Somewhat self-consciously, I relate at length how well the meeting went, how impressed the Trustees appeared to be and everything


    10. ‘All the same, she was impressed

    11. She was impressed and she suggested my joining her party! I accepted at once, full of joy


    12. When you understand that native cities look like steep crags festooned with lush jungle, it is easy to be impressed with the skyline of henarDee as it came into view almost another hour later


    13. I was especially impressed by a conch-like rock which was considerably larger than the others -as if it were their sovereign


    14. impressed as he studied the king


    15. she recites the things that impressed her today


    16. The Sens were impressed by their warm yet simple


    17. She was most impressed, as was I; by the way you conducted yourself


    18. They were really impressed with their friends


    19. impressed the folk watching and they cheered their approval


    20. ’ He commented obviously impressed

    21. They stopped for a moment to ask his business and seemed impressed by the mission he was on


    22. As before, I am impressed by the skill of our distant ancestors … I can’t imagine the work and organisation that must have gone into building this place


    23. " They were impressed by that


    24. He was pleased that his presence impressed them so


    25. ‘Is that why Wiesse is so impressed by her?’


    26. The young lady was somewhat less than impressed by the situation


    27. He seemed to approve, but wasn't impressed enough to salute


    28. My Queen is very impressed with your size and strength


    29. His mate Lady Jennie is also honored and impressed with your size


    30. ‘What does it mean, becoming a Gottesman?’ I asked, impressed by this example of vocation in action

    31. Her brothers and sisters want to see if you have impressed on her


    32. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him


    33. I began to love the music, any kind, and sometimes when Apollo grabbed me, I'd imitate the impassioned dancers I'd seen on TV and Nikos would pretend to be impressed, 'Hey, Godfrey


    34. They entered the Riders Hall and James looked around the huge room; very impressed with the size of the place


    35. He was very impressed with both Jackson and Sarah


    36. He was also deeply impressed by the sheer opulence on display inside his friend’s sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff who walked today’s streets, he wondered whether he could get a car like this as a perk of his new job


    37. “And the female… is she really that good?” Naria raised her eyebrow and tilted her head coyly, “she certainly seems to have impressed you


    38. I suppose I should have been impressed but even as the courtesy gig nudged the boarding steps, I had never felt so naked and exposed


    39. Although the animals towered way over her, he was very impressed that she showed no fear, and noticed the animals seemed to take to her quickly


    40. Over the course of her first week in residence Annie, who was naturally quiet even in happy times, impressed her great-aunt with her obvious inner sorrow, which the old dear thought only fitting for a woman of the Craig line, and the next Saturday afternoon Annie received her first invitation to call on her relative in her own apartment

    41. Annie was impressed by her aunt’s knowledge of things electronic, especially when shown the old girl’s study, which was full of the latest techno-wizardry and broadband connectivity


    42. She was even more impressed when she realised that her centenarian relative, having dispensed with a life of genteel blackmail in her early eighties, had subsequently taught herself not only the arts of silver surfing, but had also majored as a writer of hacking and viral software on a par with any young eastern European hotshot


    43. Lord Tarak was impressed with the pull that Duncan had; a raised voice and she immediately pulled in her reins


    44. Naria was impressed and took the girl under her wing teaching her how to wield a sword properly


    45. He wore a chest full of medals, which impressed Tarak, who asked about them


    46. Tarak looked at the knife and approved; “she will be very impressed with the blade,” he laughed, “she collects blades from all over the galaxy


    47. I can see from my reflection in the mirror, that I manage a very reasonable impression of amused surprise … I’m impressed


    48. He also noted Chief Swanson seemed to be very impressed with Lady Killian’s abilities


    49. Archibald was very impressed with this advice and he sent a


    50. But what impressed her most was the added fact he often sparred with Lady Rayne; he was her favorite sparring partner it seems














































    1. Europe and stil impresses, with its 15


    2. “Ah,” I said, “Your focus impresses me, never the one to stray,


    3. Besides Mr Mandela, I have yet to meet one who impresses me


    4. ‘My typing? Is that what impresses you? Typing is clumsy and slow


    5. Something about not understanding that being on time is important or that dressing correctly impresses


    6. It is a full admission of these truths which impresses upon me the extreme peril of humanity at present … Let us not be deceived by phrases about "Man taking charge of his own destiny"


    7. Oh, it’s Youssaf that impresses him, Moshe thought even as he spoke


    8. Oh, it's Youssaf that impresses him, Moshe thought even as he spoke


    9. But this linking to each other’s thoughts gave their collective race a vast unheard of power and intelligence that impresses even you


    10. Show biz impresses you not

    11. When this buddhic consciousness fully impresses the physical brain, it gives


    12. She impresses me, Travis," he said, reaching out and seizing the front of her coat


    13. He tells about our suspicions that we were being followed, but especially the book impresses Oded


    14. If I read a book and it impresses me, I may send out a note, provided there is a way to contact that writer


    15. “ Yeah, it impresses my mom all the time


    16. What impresses me and gives me hope is the growth of the mind and spirit of man, and not his being used as an agent to convey a message


    17. impresses you," Juko looked upon the other man with fire in his dark eyes, despite the pain that burned within his shoulders


    18. He shows that he means business, at the same time he impresses


    19. On many occasions I visited her in the past, right from my Primary School days when my mother usually sent me to assist her in washing plates, sweeping of their massive compound and as well attend to other home chores, she impresses me as a living legend and I had always looked up to such visits


    20. It is a black-powdered substance that peels away the face and soul of an angel and impresses them on someone else

    21. It is beautiful, this strange thing, and impresses upon her the finality of the situation—that, before her eyes, and in the near distance, is a castle wide and tall, of which she knows is the end of the world, this journey, this place


    22. It impresses upon us the


    23. This greatly impresses the gathering and a murmuring goes


    24. repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation


    25. Not because they couldn’t not make any sense: but because your dreams are inhabited and poisoned and affected by the wishes of so many unseen, undead insane auras… that the combined effect of their wishes in your dream: break up your dreams, like a kaleidoscope of broken fragments: flashing and changing with no rhyme or reason… as first one entity manages to take control of your subconscious… and then another entity rips that control away from the first and impresses his wishes on your dream so it can vicariously live out its fantasy, as all the other insane entities, crowding into the dream-fantasy… turning into meaningless chaos of conflicting wishes, a nightmare of horror, fear, terror, violation, etc… that leaves you unable to do anything


    26. he has the energy to do that after nights with Kate astounds and impresses me


    27. Her mamma of course impresses on her that this is her husband and that this must be so


    28. ' The work is full of ingenuity, but wanting in creative fancy, and by no means impresses the reader with a sense of credibility


    29. His forehead was marked with the line that indicates the constant presence of bitter thoughts; he had the fiery eyes that seem to penetrate to the very soul, and the haughty and disdainful upper lip that gives to the words it utters a peculiar character that impresses them on the minds of those to whom they are addressed


    30. Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that's how Milverton impresses me

    31. You might miss a few titles – Citizen Kane for example, which I find impresses film directors more than it does the rest of us, or A Clockwork Orange, whose main impact lay in getting banned


    32. The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity


    33. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We have just said, that no one knows anything about it


    34. When you see activity that impresses you, always refer to a weekly chart to see if the stock is building a base or if it is extended too far past its buy or pivot point


    35. Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that's how Milverton impresses me


    36. Nothing impresses the mind with the vast duration of time, according to our ideas of time, more forcibly than the conviction thus gained that subaerial agencies, which apparently have so little power, and which seem to work so slowly, have produced great results


    37. The consideration of these various facts impresses the mind almost in the same manner as does the vain endeavour to grapple with the idea of eternity


    38. And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell


    39. That impresses men's minds, and to such a degree that the very triviality and incompleteness of the evidence becomes less trivial and less incomplete even to an unprejudiced mind


    1. What I am impressing on would-be vegetarians is that it can be done if you really want to


    2. Livingson, I have just been impressing upon Grundy and Mackie, that in my five years of tenure here, nor I might add, after counsel with Mr


    3. Brian described the heist from his point of view impressing Babs that his murders were done efficiently


    4. In terms of the content that you write, you want to work on really impressing the reader with your knowledge


    5. The last time I tried to do so it was for my American Patriot (soon after we met and still at the impressing stage)


    6. He gave up all pretense of high roller intent on impressing his companion, and allowed her to pull him close for the cheek-to-cheek delivery of her secret


    7. He had hoped to share a memorable lunch with Beth in the elegant restaurant, impressing her with Gordy, before leaving for two weeks of travel, but the idiocy of his brother became a source of continual, acute embarrassment


    8. the Holy spirit was so impressing on them to preach


    9. He had no trouble handling it, much impressing our hosts


    10. It was uncommon for any Chairman of a bank to attend these events; they were usually reserved for sales directors and their minions but it did have the effect of impressing upon potential clients the personal service and attention they required; throughout all of his years in Banking, he had never lost his common touch

    11. More realistically, you should hope to sell a reasonable number, impressing your publisher on the upside


    12. at some things then they are? Is it to impress those who you should not be impressing? Has this


    13. Some of the older folk sit around impressing the hell out of the younger kids with stories about the drugs in the ‘good old days,’ and whatnot


    14. If I’m no use for impressing his mates then he doesn’t want me


    15. “You came down to this office for the sole purpose of impressing on us how important the current situation is and you will most likely need some sort of prop, hence the equipment


    16. whether near or far away, write (or precipitate) them, by impressing upon his


    17. There may be times when you want to emphasize on your strengths, in the effort of impressing the interviewers to get the job


    18. ����������� The showing of �AVATAR� after the supper was even more appreciated than the previous movie, impressing the audience with its visual effects and stunningly beautiful imagery


    19. That infernal scene, apart from impressing the hell out of Marguerite Higgins and the other American women, created utter panic among the surviving enemy infantrymen, who then withdrew in disorder, pursued by machine gun fire


    20. I was helping Gautam in impressing Koel as a result of which I had to spend too much time with him and Koel was not liking it

    21. The tour of the corvette given afterwards to her, her brother Ahmed, her father Omar and to ibn Khordadbeh had finished impressing into her how far ahead of the present world Vyyn Drelan and her people were


    22. He delighted in impressing them with slight-of-hand, card tricks and spent a considerable amount of time with Paige Whitley


    23. Fleurette excitedly congratulated Charlie for impressing Quentin, acknowledging the fact that it was quite an honour, indeed


    24. It’s a way of impressing


    25. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created


    26. This is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing on the Universal subjective mind the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact


    27. I would spend my days impressing her with the gloriousness of independence, of having her time entirely at her own disposal, her life free and clear, the world open before her, as open as it was to Adam and Eve when they turned their backs once and for all on the cloying sweetness of Paradise, and far more interesting that it was to them, for it would be full of inhabitants eager to give her the hearty welcome always awaiting those rare persons, the cheery and the brave


    28. Jeremy and Tony were just staring in admiration at Alex, his skill in playing clearly impressing them


    29. Perrin was a willowy, young cop, who appeared eager on satisfying and impressing his superiors, and human


    30. Different tribes for different areas have different tongues, you see?” He had learned this from other prisoners, but it seemed to be doing the trick in impressing the guard

    31. With a gasp that was almost relief she slipped out of the room, shut the door quickly behind her, and assuming what she tried to hope was an unconcerned swagger, a sort of "I am-as-good-as-you-are" air for the impressing of any one she might meet, walked down the passage


    32. With all explanations covered for Birch to peruse, Cedar gave him little time to make any other decision than to go to the camp, impressing even Elm at his dominance of the situation


    33. impressing this on your mind is to make you aware that the same courage, the same determination that


    34. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon


    35. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought


    36. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon


    37. He was impressing me to my new boots now and I stared at him


    38. � It no longer expresses itself and defends itself in pleasing, impressing, or surrendering to the world


    39. Hank was a bit awkward at this impressing a girl thing, but most tenth graders are, and he was no different


    40. “You better take a look at this for yourself”, she conveyed the message to the Dragons, impressing on the gravity of the situation and hoping to have them on her side while starting to deal with the antique, to make it genuine and unadulterated

    41. " Ohlson raised a finger to his nose as he leaned away, impressing on Eric that he should stay quiet


    42. He besought her--though he added that he knew it was needless--to console her father, by impressing him through every tender means she could think of, with the truth that he had done nothing for which he could justly reproach himself, but had uniformly forgotten himself for their joint sakes


    43. In this speech Don Quixote wound up the evidence of his madness, but still better in what he added when he said, "God knows, I would gladly take Don Lorenzo with me to teach him how to spare the humble, and trample the proud under foot, virtues that are part and parcel of the profession I belong to; but since his tender age does not allow of it, nor his praiseworthy pursuits permit it, I will simply content myself with impressing it upon your worship that you will become famous as a poet if you are guided by the opinion of others rather than by your own; because no fathers or mothers ever think their own children ill-favoured, and this sort of deception prevails still more strongly in the case of the children of the brain


    44. And the oncommonest workman can't show himself oncommon in a gridiron,—for a gridiron IS a gridiron," said Joe, steadfastly impressing it upon me, as if he were endeavouring to rouse me from a fixed delusion, "and you may haim at what you like, but a gridiron it will come out, either by your leave or again your leave, and you can't help yourself—"


    45. Godwyn was not very interested in food, except as a means of impressing people, but Philemon tucked in greedily


    46. "You told me once to start by impressing you, General


    47. (My wife was adept in achieving such small advantages, first impressing the impressionable with her chic and my celebrity and, superiority once firmly established, changing quickly to a pose of almost flirtatious affability


    48. But there was no need for caution; not a soul was at hand, and Tess went onward with fortitude, her recollection of the birds' silent endurance of their night of agony impressing upon her the relativity of sorrows and the tolerable nature of her own, if she could once rise high enough to despise opinion


    49. What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! Dorothea, early troubling her elders with questions aboutthe facts around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why land should be entailed: those reasons, impressing her with a certain awe, might be weightier than she knew, but here was a question of ties which left them uninfringed


    50. ‘Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic methods that he had




































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    Synonyms for "impress"

    impress impressment yarn-dye ingrain instill shanghai imprint print affect move strike excite overwhelm overawe awe fascinate wow stir persuade

    "impress" definitions

    the act of coercing someone into government service


    have an emotional or cognitive impact upon


    impress positively


    produce or try to produce a vivid impression of


    mark or stamp with or as if with pressure


    reproduce by printing


    take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship


    dye (fabric) before it is spun