Examples of “imprint” in a Sentence

noun A mark left by pressing something onto a surface, or a lasting effect on someone's mind or life.

• The cat left a muddy paw imprint on the clean kitchen floor.
• The fossil preserved the imprint of a leaf from millions of years ago.
• Her early mentor left a lasting imprint on her career.

verb To leave a lasting mark, memory, or influence, especially early in life.

• Baby ducks imprint on the first moving thing they see after hatching.
• Those summers at the lake imprinted a love of nature on him.
• The tragedy imprinted itself on the town's collective memory.