How to Use impressive in a Sentence

impressive

adjective
  • He has an impressive manner.
  • Her first performance was very impressive.
  • He has an impressive vocabulary for a 10-year-old.
  • But the Chiefs have been the more impressive team in the postseason.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Seeing two huge bands like that from the side of the stage was impressive.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The range on the gauge is impressive—with a threshold of zero to 150 psi.
    — Charles Dryer and Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 7 July 2022
  • The surge of Bank of America in the list is impressive.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The most impressive thing about this dress has to be the wrinkle-free fabric.
    — Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • Most impressive the past two weeks is the 17 sacks the Spartans totaled.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This put a damper on what was an impressive drive for the Mustangs.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • French toast is one of the simplest recipes to make, and still manages to be very impressive.
    — Jessica Furniss, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • For an impressive dessert, serve each bar on a plate with a scoop of ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
  • King scored 14 points, but the 10 boards for a wing player is impressive.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
  • That is impressive even for a team clicking at a league-best 28.9%.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But, that doesn’t make this spray-on smart skin any less impressive.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Jan. 2023
  • More impressive: that kid’s shirt with the six retro robots on it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Bills have been impressive all year, with their offense and defense ranking in the top three of the league.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • On the audience side, the score there is impressive in its own right.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 July 2022
  • Hendrix was even more impressive, striking out the side in the fourth.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Work on the boards by Matthews-Thomas also has been impressive.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • That scope is impressive, even when the details are shaky.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Yet none of them may be able to outshine Sánchez’s impressive rock.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • His second score was what coach Kevin O’Connell called the most impressive Darnold moment of the day.
    — Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, his absence made what the club achieved all the more impressive.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • To Mosley, the way Banchero sees and reads the game is just as, if not more, impressive than his physical gifts.
    — Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • That’s just the cherry on top of an already impressive jet.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Both players were impressive in the spring game and round out a deep running back group.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 12 July 2022
  • For that to be your first hit, that’s pretty impressive.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Amplifying this feeling of being a guest at your chic friend’s impressive house is that there are plenty of events to attend in the lobby and first-floor cafe.
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2025
  • It’s got a wide range from super fine powdery grains to cracked peppercorns and has impressive output with fewer twists.
    — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 May 2025

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