How to Use impressionable in a Sentence

impressionable

adjective
Definition of impressionablenext
Synonyms for impressionablenext
  • The book had a profound effect on his impressionable young mind.
  • The teacher was accused of forcing his political beliefs on impressionable teenagers.
  • But Yale had been young and impressionable, and maybe that’s why the reciting of names chafed.
    — Rebecca Makkai, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Weapons and unchecked power were left in the hands of impressionable youths.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The 44-year-old made an impressionable mark with his suave style.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • There’s too many young guys in there that are impressionable.
    — Kevin Santo, USA TODAY, 28 June 2017
  • The younger mice, in their highly impressionable state, were.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • These Pacers are too young and impressionable to be involved in an overt tank job.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The two of you have spent a decade together since your late teens, which is an impressionable age for anyone.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Football makes dreamers out of the impressionable youth who watch with hopes of playing at the same level one day.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Then the impressionable children leave and Yuri slashes the painting in question with a knife.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Who better to help Chelsea's young, impressionable players with how to live their lives?
    — SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • Kids their age are the most impressionable group there is, Obama reminded friends at the time, likening them to sponges.
    — Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 24 June 2018
  • Finding some of these little towns along the way are, to me, more impressionable and more exciting.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Now he was concerned that the man was dropping Sivan’s name to impressionable youngsters.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • Just give us one more season of authentic baseball, and hope those impressionable kids learn to use all of the equipment.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • And then telling a young, impressionable kid that Canada’s never had an Olympic men’s gold medalist.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And it’s not a new issue; streamers have for years leveraged their platform to groom young, impressionable fans.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Wet hair is so much more impressionable than dry, and disturbing the hair when wet could be detrimental to a smooth finish.
    — Pia Velasco, Good Housekeeping, 20 Aug. 2021
  • During the clash between the impressionable Moon in your 8th House of Sharing and strict Saturn in your social 11th house, your grip on boundaries isn’t the strongest.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
  • Millions of children in Europe read the Lucky Luke comic books at an impressionable age.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Just take a 2012 trip to Leicester: Over the course of a two-hour train ride, the monarch sat with the impressionable young royal and personally went over briefing papers with her.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And with it, the platform to elevate its ideas to a wider audience of impressionable young people.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • When Tebow began playing for the Gators as a change-of-pace quarterback in the fall of 2006, Marcius was an impressionable kid looking for a role model.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 4 June 2017
  • Sweet, funny and catchy as hell, this earworm of a movie has inspired actual schools of rock to open up across the country and teach impressionable children the power of the riff.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • That’s hugely important for a young, impressionable roster in the midst of a rebuild.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2020
  • And no one can make more of an impression on an impressionable kid-athlete than a coach who is wise and tough, empathetic and all in.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 May 2021
  • For an impressionable young quarterback in Jacksonville, Fla., the message was loud and clear.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021
  • The key to future success for brands and businesses, then, lies in reaching them at an early and impressionable age.
    — Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • As the impressionable Moon in your domestic 4th house snaps at spacey Neptune in your partnership sector, perhaps there’s something about the environment where the two of you usually spend time together that’s bringing out the worst in both of you.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024

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