I'm twenty-three--one usually finds the thing imminent at that age.
We were rapidly drawing near Deep Harbor, and Knowlton's briskness at the imminent approach of business increased even beyond its normal.
And so they dined upon the remains of their feast, but warmed by the cheerful blaze, both conscious of the imminent hour of seclusion and affinity.
No sooner did I grasp the situation than immediately I rushed to the front, though it was at the imminent peril of my life.
For the fortunes of all men would be in imminent danger, if they were bound by such promises, which often proceed from motives of vanity rather than from a settled deliberation, and are the result of a light and inconsiderate mind.
Again, if the danger be so imminent as to allow of no time for an application to the sovereign executive power, here too the necessity is admitted as an exception to the general rule.
To obviate therefore any imminent danger, if no other proper method can be devised, ambassadors may be detained and interrogated.
Temporary, where it is impossible for the injured party to wait for a legal remedy, without imminent danger and even destruction.
Indeed they found this submission the only remedy against imminent danger, and in the words of Cicero, the Dictatorship possessed all the strength of royal power.
The operation allayed my pulse for a few hours; but as the fever came back with new vigor, it became necessary for my attendants to arouse the Mongo to a sense of my imminent danger.
The Germans themselves had gone to earth, no one knew where; and from that moment it was certain that war was imminent and inevitable.
I must know all"--and there was imminent danger in Thorpe's quivering voice, which Rutley felt was not to be trifled with.
So sudden was the surprise, so unexpected and imminent the danger, that he automatically flung up his hands.
At these embrasures they took their stand, and awaited, stern and indomitable, the imminent attack.
The act may be suspended by order in council in the event of war or of imminent national danger or great emergency, or in the event of any grave economic disturbance due to the demand for coal exceeding the supply available at any time.
No; there the thing lies, this ghost of a vessel, just as it had lain when it had afforded him timely refuge from imminent peril.
He decided that he would get on board the derelict; and no sooner had he come to this decision than he saw that the sooner he should carry it into effect the better, and that for reasons very weighty, very imminent indeed.
One week after the New Year, he was writing the last lines of his book, when Stride came into the room and flung down a letter in Archibald's handwriting.
This part of the mountain was known as Eagle Rocks, because for many seasons a pair of golden eagles had nested on one of the crags.
But the inference that my escape from the toils of the law was imminent set my heart to thumping.
With your kind assistance he informed the captain of his whereabouts and the date of his imminent arrival in London.
But Cheldric, in his imminent danger of his men, betook himself to flight.
Indeed, York seemed for a time the chief hope for preserving and advancing Christian culture; for the danger of a relapse into dense ignorance had become imminent in the rest of Europe.
But the imminent awakening of Andrews presented a physical threat that had to be silenced immediately.
Many a collision becameimminent in the uncertain light.
I believe that's what you church folk call it when the Almighty averts a disaster that is made imminent by your own short-sightedness.
He was gradually losing flesh and strength, and getting now a continual fever, which showed the imminent danger of his condition.
The camp was far ahead, with all the extra blankets, and the prospect was imminent that they would perish.
Twenty-and-seven men have died through my act, and I have used the sacred bones foully, and brought them intoimminent peril of total destruction, according to my oath.
As to the likelihood of old Briggs's death, it didn't strike me as imminent when I had a conversation with him yesterday.
My husband never told me exactly how much was there, but sometimes when things looked peaceable there was less money in the war chest than when there was imminent danger of the European outbreak which we all fear.
At this moment a Spanish ensign approached the Prince of Parma and conjured him to remove from a place where his life was in manifest and imminent peril.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imminent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
