Use imminent in a sentence
Sentences ending with imminent
- In fact, things were imminent. [5]
- This knightly patrician well knew--as did every lover of horses--the owner of the finest stable in Alexandria, and was quite willing to allow Gorgo and Apuleius to remain with their patient; at the same time he warned them that a great catastrophe was imminent. [10]
- By the middle of December, 1895, the explosion seemed imminent. [5]
- Did Governor Hamilton know that a visit was imminent? [9]
- I was stung, but I was obliged to admire the easy confidence with which my chief loafed from side to side of his wheel, and trimmed the ships so closely that disaster seemed ceaselessly imminent. [5]
- His liability to be suddenly summoned to Washington, or Boston or Montreal or even to Liverpool was always imminent. [5]
- They were helpless, and death imminent. [5]
More example sentences with the word imminent in them
- No, not rescue yet--only the imminent prospect of it. [5]
- Tell her the whole truth, out of Irene's hearing, with the gravity the matter deserves, and she will not hinder her sister when she knows how great and how imminent is the danger that threatens her. [10]
- The Colonel's tongue was a magician's wand that turned dried apples into figs and water into wine as easily as it could change a hovel into a palace and present poverty into imminent future riches. [5]
- The soldier's hands trembled, but it was from imminent illness, not from fear or excitement. [11]
- Then he turned to Melissa and asked her: "Would you for their sakes be able to make up your mind to face bitter humiliation, nay, perhaps imminent danger? [10]
- He only longed to be hopeful once more, to enjoy the present--as so many philosophers and poets advised--and especially the show in the Circus, his last pleasure, perhaps; to forget the imminent future. [10]
- The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast. [10]
- Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep--but an intruder came, now, that would not "down. [5]
- The wind puffed the third one out just as it was on the imminent verge of success. [5]
- I had just that desperate feeling of being lost, and with it went an acute sense of an imminent danger; the ground, no longer firm under my feet, had become a sliding shale sloping toward an unseen precipice. [9]
- Scared as though some imminent horror threatened herself, she clasped Melissa's hand as she listened to the tale of the dangers Alexander had so narrowly escaped. [10]
- It had already risen so high that it was approaching the eaves, and when it reaches this point there is always imminent risk of their being swept away. [5]
- That staccato postscript reads as if some new and mighty business were imminent, for it is slung on the paper telegraphically, all the small words left out. [5]
- To the imminent peril of one of the frailest of Mrs. Forsythe's chairs, he sat down on it, placed his hands on his knees, flung back his head, and blew the smoke towards the ceiling. [9]
- Then she burst out with one of those enthusiasms which were always burning in her when battle was imminent, and said: "Work! [5]
- Next morning, the old man was in a raging fever accompanied with delirium; and sinking under the influence of this disorder he lay for many weeks in imminent peril of his life. [12]
- The remote possibility of such a catastrophe had frightened some timid dwellers beneath The Mountain to other places of residence; here the danger was most imminent, and yet he loved to dwell upon the chances of its occurrence. [6]
- They are not now the chief danger to the purpose of the Republican organization; but the most imminent danger that now threatens that purpose is that insidious Douglas popular sovereignty. [7]
- His antagonist would not accept them and asked for arguments; at the same time he, like every one else, felt the influence of a vague dread of some imminent and terrible disaster hanging over the earth and humanity at large. [10]
- Her brother's career, it was true, threatened to come to an untimely end, for he stood in imminent danger. [10]
- Foreign intervention, openly invited and industriously instigated by the abettors of the insurrection, became imminent, and has only been prevented by the practice of strict and impartial justice, with the most perfect moderation, in our intercourse with nations. [7]
- This man, the innkeeper had told him, was known to be a Revolutionary, and he felt he was in imminent danger. [11]
- You made defects in the circumstantial evidence, the imminent problems of our own salvation. [11]
- Her life was in imminent danger, and she did not suspect it. [5]
- I am not impressed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their attention thereto and prevent as far as possible the apprehended disturbance. [7]
- The danger was imminent, but Brown found his voice again and saved himself. [5]
- Joan was in imminent peril now. [5]
- This meant as imminent peril as fire under the roof, water rising in the hold of a ship, or the plague in the house. [10]
- Another strike was imminent in the factories at Manitou and in the railway-shops at Lebanon, due to the stupidity of the policy of Ingolby's successor as to the railways and other financial and manufacturing interests. [11]
- He was the imminent figure; it was his fate that was in the balance--such was the antic irony of suggestion. [11]
- He knew that his son and Melissa had escaped the most imminent dangers. [10]
- Every fibre of his being rebelled against the misfortune of being dragged through the wilderness at this decisive hour, far from his people and the father whom he knew to be in such imminent danger. [10]
- But now, as he stood under the great tree, within hand-touch of the old life, in imminent danger of being thrust back into it, the question of Rosalie came upon him with all the force of months of feeling behind it. [11]
- Moustache, her Field-marshal, had led forth the army, and a battle was now imminent, which like all other battles, must end either in victory or defeat. [10]
- Thus our lives had been once more in imminent peril, but by the exercise of the swift sagacity and cool courage which had saved us so often, we had added another escape to the long list. [5]
- I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way and imminent as indicated above. [5]
- If Master Bernard felt a natural gratitude to his young pupil for saving him from an imminent peril, he was in a state of infinite perplexity to know why he should have needed such aid. [6]
- When I was feeling sure of my imminent future solidity, I forwarded to the Czar of Russia--perhaps prematurely--an offer for the purchase of Siberia, naming a vast sum. [5]
- A great, decisive event was imminent, and the most ardent wish her heart had ever cherished was approaching its fulfilment. [10]
- On the very edge of that, on the lip of it, where the smoke rose, I also saw human shapes; and it seemed as if they stood on the brink of Tartarus and in momently imminent peril. [4]
- That night, after dinner, Gaston rose to make his maiden speech on a bill dealing with an imminent social question. [11]
- The gentleman apparently did not resent this, although he seemed in imminent danger of being upset. [9]
- She recalled the dark moment when Death, intrusive, imminent, lurked at the tent door, and in its shadow she emptied out her soul in that one kiss of fealty and farewell. [11]
- But when the danger was most imminent, we were saved in a mysterious way. [5]
- Diodoros must forthwith cross the lake and rouse Polybius and Praxilla, to warn them of the imminent danger, while Alexander undertook to hire a ship for the party. [10]
- Dicky weighed his chances with a little shrinking, but with no fear: he had been in imminent danger for four long months, and he was little likely to give way now. [11]
- But when they came to rig the powderhoist and a couple of them descended into the magazine with pipes lighted, I was in imminent expectation of being blown as high as a kite. [9]
- Papa had just been declaring that Martha was in imminent danger. [14]
- Neatest touch of all: unborn but imminent princes of the blood could be _born_ into the regiment, and start fair, with good wages and a permanent situation, upon due notice from the parents. [5]
- Now, he was again brought face to face with his past; with the imminent memory of Guida Landresse de Landresse. [11]
- But she had a power born for imminent circumstances, and her mind was made up as to her course. [11]
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