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Example sentences for "imperative"

Lexicographically close words:
impenitency; impenitent; impenitently; impensis; imperat; imperatively; imperatives; imperatorem; imperatori; imperatorum
  1. As the operations of the intended expedition to Kordofan would not probably be finished till the winter, it was imperative that we should try and hold out by some means till then.

  2. Her voice had been quiet, deliberate, and yet pregnant with a curiously sharp, imperative command.

  3. There came a short, curt shout from behind him, an imperative order to halt.

  4. It is therefore an imperative necessity for the safety of this country while it is at war that his Majesty's Government should do all in its power to stop such part of this import of copper as is not genuinely destined for neutral countries.

  5. At the same time he emphasized that Belgium was under the imperative necessity to keep herself constantly informed of the happenings in the adjoining Rhinelands.

  6. His abstract ideals are modified or negatived by more imperative sympathies or antipathies.

  7. It happened that she was called to a meeting of the American Tract Society, and it was her intention to pay a visit to her cousin, Royall Eastman, after she had discharged the first and imperative duty she owed the society.

  8. This so-called "band" is as imperative in the saturnalia of Dress Parade as a demijohn in an Iowa closet.

  9. Orders were imperative and discipline was supreme.

  10. But it was imperative that I should have an assured income, however small; and every one who has tried it knows how uncertain a support one's pen is, unless it has become very famous indeed.

  11. Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

  12. An imperative need had just come over him to see Jean at once, to look at him at his leisure, to surprise him in his sleep, while the calm countenance and relaxed features were at rest and all the grimace of life put off.

  13. The state of weakness into which the crown had fallen made it imperative for the ministers to use every exertion for the preservation of what remained of the royal prerogative, as well as to ensure the public liberties.

  14. It was supported by voluntary tithes which were not made imperative by law earlier than the year 787.

  15. It is, in fact, really imperative that the Assemblies should be deprived of all direct legislative power, and should confine themselves to the registration of laws and to questions of taxation.

  16. While she examined this place a knock came on the outer door--a loud, imperative knock.

  17. The imperative is the mode of command and entreaty.

  18. Notice that the exclamation point follows the declarative and imperative forms, but the interrogative form is followed by the question mark.

  19. The period is used at the close of imperative and declarative sentences.

  20. Essential as is proficiency in the use of the whip when driving four horses, it is even more imperative for the driver of tandem.

  21. Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

  22. The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

  23. An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate.

  24. This makes it imperative for me to know at once if you are coming to help me next September.

  25. No resignation appearing, the same body on March 4 made an “imperative demand” for one.

  26. But ten years had not passed before it was apparent that ampler accommodations were imperative for multiplying functionaries and expanding business.

  27. Mr. Ashley did not immediately reply, and the question was repeated in a hasty, almost an imperative tone.

  28. A sense of duty was strong within her, and she knew that the most imperative duty of the present moment was the support and solace of her mother.

  29. The blow was so imperative as to command attention; a repetition of the summons would have forced the door from its hinges.

  30. The words were spoken in a tone at once so imperative and so imploring, that Andrés immediately saw it was not the artifice of a young girl begging to be let alone, and hoping to be disobeyed.

  31. The imperative certainly seems to be a change made to facilitate the construction.

  32. Crimes Impulsively Committed by the Insane An interesting mental feature of many insane patients is the imperative conception, or imperative impulse.

  33. Flutter-Duck's tone would now be imperative and ill-tempered.

  34. At last Robins's telegrams became too imperative to be disregarded, and even my second supply of money would not suffice for another day.

  35. Before her playfully imperative injunction was fairly spoken, Richard had glanced at the document and discovered a Griffin between two Wheatsheaves: his crest in silver: and below--O wonderment immense!

  36. The law which rendered it imperative for the land to lie fallow in order to rest and gain renewed strength, is only another illustration of the unity which pervades physical conditions everywhere.

  37. All he asserted was his inscrutable moral imperative and a God to reward with the pleasures of the next world those who had been Puritans in this.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imperative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; acid; acute; allegiance; arbitrary; aristocratic; arrogant; ascendant; authoritarian; authoritative; authorized; autocratic; behest; bidding; binding; biting; bossy; burden; burning; business; canon; charge; clamorous; code; commanding; commandment; commitment; compelling; competent; compulsive; compulsory; conclusive; consequential; considerable; controlling; convention; corrosive; critical; crucial; crying; cutting; decisive; dedication; deference; demanding; despotic; devotion; dictate; dictatorial; dictum; dire; directive; dominant; domineering; driving; effective; eminent; empowered; entailed; essential; ethics; exacting; exigency; exigent; fealty; feudal; final; forceful; forcible; form; formula; governing; great; grinding; homage; immediacy; imperative; imperial; imperious; important; importunate; imposed; impressive; incisive; indicative; indispensable; inevitable; influential; insistent; insolent; instant; instructive; involuntary; irresistible; irrevocable; law; leading; lordly; loyalty; magisterial; mandate; mandated; mandatory; masterful; maxim; mighty; mission; mode; momentous; mood; moral; mordant; must; necessary; needful; nervous; norm; obligation; obligatory; official; onus; oppressive; order; ordinance; overbearing; overruling; penetrating; peremptory; permissive; piercing; pivotal; place; pleasure; poignant; potent; potential; powerful; preceptive; predicament; preeminent; prerequisite; prescriptive; pressing; pressure; prestigious; principle; prominent; pronouncement; puissant; ranking; regulation; repressive; required; respect; rubric; rule; ruling; senior; sensational; severe; sinewy; slashing; standard; strict; striking; strong; substantial; superior; suppressive; supreme; telling; tenet; totalitarian; trenchant; tyrannical; ultimate; urgency; urgent; vigorous; vital; weighty; will; word