Sentence examples for impressed only from inspiring English sources

When a boy in the college bookstore brags to her about his frugality at being able to hike three months through Europe on $500, she's impressed only that he could take so much time off and have that much cash to spend on a vacation.

Aside from his triumph in getting the Crystal Palace built, Albert's accomplishments seemed to impress only his wife.

Thinking it was a more serious and traditional race, Mr. Novak showed up ready to impress, only to find that he was the only participant in a bike jersey.

Mounted on their scooters, armed with social media on their smartphones, the kingdom's young people voted for change, and in the process reduced the government-run papers and television to the role of a state-propaganda machine capable of impressing only its own supporters.

He arrived as a recent European Footballer of the Year and with a £30.8m price tag, yet managed to impress only sporadically.

An inspired introvert, he was trying to impress only himself.

They are things that would impress only your nana, but for solitary introverts, it is progress.

Might help on a night when the Chargers will be trying to impress only everyone.

She wasn't the first person who I wanted to impress, only to have them tell me my breasts were too small.

One involved trying to spear a piece of chicken on a plate, in front of a girl he wanted to impress only to have it skid away repeatedly.

This trick will usually impress only the most "beginner" of card trick volunteers.