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Example sentences for "peremptory"

Lexicographically close words:
peregrinations; peregrines; peregrini; peremptorily; peremptoriness; perenne; perennial; perennially; perennials; perennibranchiate
  1. These questions were openly met and discussed in a manly and temperate manner, in the great Sanhedrim, composed of the highest and most enlightened Jewish authorities; when a peremptory denial was established to all these injurious charges.

  2. That was done immediately amid great sorrow, although with great conformity of the religious and Indians to so peremptory decrees.

  3. It is, then, indispensable and peremptory to make the civil codes of legal processes, of criminal instruction, and of commerce especially for the country.

  4. King, in such a peremptory tone that his command was at once obeyed.

  5. But its sonorous ticking brought her to a peremptory halt.

  6. I noticed that whenever Mr. Birchmore had occasion to address this man, he did so in a peculiarly severe and peremptory tone, very different from his usual low-voiced style.

  7. I have already mentioned the peremptory tone in which Mr. Birchmore uniformly addressed the man Slurk, and the generally overbearing attitude he assumed towards him; but in the conversation now going forward all this was changed.

  8. The “wee maister” ordered him, in that peremptory voice we all remember, to stand up and hold out his hand, being not at all sure but the big fellow might knock him down on the word.

  9. But when I tried to speak to him earnestly, his manner was peremptory and repellent.

  10. They were peremptory as to the use of force in case of need, whether against the Government or the Prince of Satsuma.

  11. It then became his turn to force a settlement, and he at once assumed a peremptory tone with the British Minister, notifying him that he would leave Chefoo on a certain day, convention or no convention.

  12. He was quite peremptory in ordering me not to overtask my eyes--forbidding reading and writing, as I have already mentioned.

  13. Submissive Oscar was taking a peremptory tone with her for the first time in his life.

  14. Greatly to my surprise, Oscar submitted to be treated in this peremptory manner.

  15. He spoke with a frown on his bushy eyebrows, and pointed in a very peremptory manner to the house-door.

  16. Obedient to this peremptory summons, Lucilla, Nugent, and I returned to the sitting-room.

  17. Just then, one little peremptory knock at the door was heard.

  18. They cannot express themselves, and moreover there is a very strict and peremptory convention which dictates what may be talked about and what may not.

  19. He made a theory of political economy, which, peremptory and prejudiced as it is, is yet built on large lines, and has been fruitful in suggestiveness.

  20. I am always infuriated by stupid people who regret the disappearance of sharp, stern, peremptory punishments, and lament the softness of the rising generation.

  21. It was their training that blanketed the sympathetic side of them, until they unconsciously acquired all the peremptory disposition of Oriental tyrants.

  22. He maintained the silence on which he had fallen back ever since her final peremptory letter requesting him not to write to her--she wondered if she had made it more peremptory than she had intended!

  23. I think that mamma had often to put a peremptory end to these difficulties by sitting down on them, for frequently it was a very turbulent-looking nest when she calmly placed herself upon it.

  24. His wife joined him at Thorn in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukaz ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

  25. And with that I moved off, but not before hearing the peremptory command with which she entered the house: "Now, Dinah, quick!

  26. Inhabitants of several descriptions came to pay their respects to the Captain of Knockdunder, a homage which he was very peremptory in exacting, and to see the new settlers.

  27. It does not do for me to be first; I have been what she called elated, and been more peremptory than need with the lower boys, and gone on in my old way with Richard, and so I suppose this disgrace has come to punish me.

  28. All the satisfaction he got was a peremptory order to clear out of our seas within twelve hours as a penalty for his rudeness to the Queen.

  29. She was unable actually to pierce her sides, as her commander had received the most peremptory orders not to use more than 15 pounds of powder to load his guns, but the Merrimac got so "rattled" that she had to sheer off.

  30. His refusal to relieve the Dominicans was accompanied with a peremptory command to all the prelates of the region to extend favor, assistance, and protection to the inquisitors in their toils and tribulations.

  31. Now or never was the peremptory alternative presented to the consul, who, taking his official life in his hands, had to decide and act on his own personal responsibility.

  32. The answer was a peremptory threat to march on Peking, whereupon the commissioners signed the paper without another word.

  33. I could not be wholly insensible to an invitation so affectionate; but I struggled against my better self, and pronounced a hasty and peremptory refusal.

  34. She had given peremptory orders that some delicate exotics should be forced into flower to adorn an entertainment.

  35. It was the resistance and apathy of the boards of guardians that prevented these attempts being particularly successful,[439] and the Central Authority appears not to have felt able to issue peremptory orders on the subject.

  36. A peremptory summons was followed by the bursting open of the kitchen door, when two flushed and heated American dragoons, one a comet and the other a private, stood on the threshold.

  37. In a few minutes he galloped up to the post held by the British picket, and flung himself off his reeking steed--incurring imminent risk of being bayoneted by the sentry, because he took no notice of his peremptory challenge.

  38. The orders of the Secretary of War were peremptory that no one should leave Washington for the front.

  39. A peremptory order from Washington having stopped every one from reaching Fortress Monroe, he had therefore to do the next best thing as collector and reviser of news.

  40. It was as absolutely against the peremptory demand of England for the surrender of the prisoners as it was against the United States for the seizure of them.

  41. McDowell saw the blunder, but his directions were peremptory and nothing was left but to obey.

  42. The Southern Democrats in the House receded from their action, and the modified resolution was carried by nearly as large a vote as had been the previous one for decided and peremptory notice.

  43. General Halleck's position was sustained by the President, and the Secretary of War, and the argument of General McClellan, convincing and conclusive as it seems, was overruled by the peremptory mandate of his military superiors.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peremptory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; arbitrary; aristocratic; arrogant; assertive; authoritarian; authoritative; autocratic; bigoted; binding; bossy; categorical; clear; commanding; compelling; complete; compulsory; conclusive; curt; decided; decisive; definite; definitive; despotic; determinate; dictatorial; directive; doctrinaire; dogmatic; domineering; downright; emphatic; entailed; entire; explicit; express; feudal; final; fixed; flat; global; grinding; imperative; imperial; imperious; implicit; imposed; indisputable; insolent; instructive; irrevocable; lordly; magisterial; mandated; mandatory; masterful; must; necessary; obligatory; opinionated; oppressive; oracular; outright; overbearing; overruling; peremptory; perfect; pontifical; positive; positivistic; preceptive; prescriptive; repressive; required; round; severe; shabby; straight; strict; summary; suppressive; total; tyrannical; ultimate; unconditional; undoubting; unequivocal; unhampered; unhesitating; unlimited; unmistakable; unmitigated; unqualified; unquestioning; unreasonable; unreserved; unrestricted; utter; whole