The part of a sentence "imprinted by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something has been influenced or marked by something else. For example, "His ideas were heavily imprinted by the writing of renowned authors".
Which makes it more comfortable to think of humans as characterless meatloaves imprinted by culture.
What if I was so imprinted by dogma that I needed the very narrowness against which I strained?
The writer did not want the bird to become imprinted by her--to believe that a human was its mother.
"They make you realize how spatially based so many memories are and how deeply we're imprinted by our childhood homes".
For many more, the only record is a few strips of plastic tape, imprinted by a mortuary's label-maker and glued to a tiny plate.
In the preface to the collected Rabbit novels, "Rabbit Angstrom," he talks about "the religious faith that a useful truth will be imprinted by a perfect artistic submission".
No one's life really takes shape so antiseptically, without unchosen attachments and the habits of mind imprinted by family, friends and nation.
The truth is that general Chinese attitudes about Japan are so deeply imprinted by history that those images probably helped to bring them a bit closer together.
In the end, when the bird disappears from a bird sanctuary where the writer left it, it is the writer who feels imprinted by the bird.
Mr. Halavik said alewives spawned in local waters were "imprinted" by the Peconic estuary in a way that assured their return each year.
For just as a gene can carry a mark from its parent of origin, so it can be imprinted by that parent's own experience.
