How to Use impressionable in a Sentence

impressionable

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• But what appears to be an idyllic summer camp turns out to be a front for an eco-fascist organization looking to recruit impressionable youths.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
• But the inescapable truth is that Nino’s charms are irresistible for a young and impressionable mind (even sometimes a developed and sophisticated one).
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024