diffuse

In a sentence

Six example sentences with diffuse, each labelled with its topic.

• Cloud cover turned the harsh noon sun into diffuse light, so the portraits showed no hard shadows at all.

  Photography

• The nebula's gas is so diffuse that a cubic meter of it holds fewer atoms than a laboratory vacuum.

  Science

• Support for the measure was diffuse, scattered thinly across forty districts, so no single representative felt pressure to act.

  Politics

• North-facing windows give the studio a diffuse light, soft and even, that never throws a hard shadow across the desk.

  Architecture

• The recording sounds diffuse, the strings spread across a wide hall with no single instrument standing in front.

  Music

• The benefits of the tariff are concentrated in one industry while the costs are diffuse, spread thinly across every shopper.

  Economics

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More Academic words

• axiom
• aggregated
• stabilise
• primacy
• administratively
• globalisation
• principled
• presumptuous
• negate
• brevity
• fluctuate
• adequacy