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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For that to be your first hit, that’s pretty impressive.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Though his football work is impressive, Reid has also run the sprint events for the track team.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The phone also has an impressive battery life of up to 24 hours per charge.
    — Rudie Obias, Variety, 16 May 2024
  • The Mega Millions prize for this evening has amassed an impressive sum of $560 million.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • The passing stats might have been even more impressive.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 25 Mar. 2023
  • One of the most impressive of these features is called Face Unblur.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The most impressive detail, however, is the fact that Hotel Marcel is the first net-zero hotel in the US.
    — Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Sea turtles make impressive 8,000-mile migrations across oceans and tend to return to the same feeding and nesting sites.
    — Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025

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