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• The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.From the entry indicate
• The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.From the entry tailspin
• Despite many rounds of talks, a solution to the problem does not seem imminent.2013, V. K. Singh, Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography, Aleph Book Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 158. From the entry Zhenbao
• “I can't hear you over the sound of your imminent death.”2011, Audrey Hart, The Dig: Zoe and Zeus, Backlit Fiction, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry I can't hear you over the sound of
• When a company is in 'imminent danger', voting cap restrictions could be used.2003, The Economics of the Proposed European Takeover Directive, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry voting cap
• Without these sayings, the textual basis for saying Jesus expected an imminent eschaton becomes very slender.1994, Marcus J. Borg, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry eschaton
• The birth of skacid — acid ska music — is imminent.1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 6, page 16. From the entry skacid
• The air temperature is most important and a sudden drop may well indicate imminent icing conditions.1970, The Marine Observer. Published by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee, Air Ministry, London. The Review of the Marine…. From the entry black frost
• Some took issue with this forecast of an imminent Spermageddon.2022 November 5, Ellie Austin, “Why are so many young men freezing their sperm?”, in The Times, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2023. From the entry spermageddon
• We have an incurious narcissist of a president who was warned over and over by his advisors about an imminent pandemic.2020, Sarah Longwell, “What Did They Think Would Happen?”, in The Bulwark. From the entry wishcasting
• It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press…. From the entry intentional
• Those braindead sectants can interpret anything including farts of their spiritual leaders as the sign of imminent destruction of Israel.2003 December 30, Passerby, “The NK and the Iran quake”, in soc.culture.palestine (Usenet), retrieved 28 Aug 2022. From the entry sectant
• In spite of its subject, imminent death, Mr.2000 October 6, Dave Kehr, “AT THE MOVIES; Burstyn Past And Present”, in The New York Times. From the entry underpack
• Strobes and smoke created curtains of imminent light.1997, Mark Waugh, Come. From the entry drapetomania
• When our last plenary session was held in November of last year the Pacific was threatened with imminent outbreak of war.1942 [1942 October 22], Chiang Kai-shek, “Endurance, conscientiousness”, in All We Are and All We Have, New York: Chinese News Service…. From the entry pacific
• Emerging, satiated, from the theatre, a public timepiece before a jeweller's shop confronted him with an unexpected dial and imminent perplexities.1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC. From the entry dalliance
• For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6. From the entry doomsdayer
• There are many names QAnon conspiracy theorists ascribe to the day of reckoning they believe, perpetually and without any substantiation, to be imminent.2018 December 5, Molly Roberts, “QAnon Says Dec. 5 Will Be Banner Day for Conspiracy Theory, 'The Storm' has Yet to Arrive”, in Newsweek. From the entry day of reckoning
• Observers do not intervene unless there is an imminent safety issue or if an aircraft would be flown in a nonairworthy condition.2017, Steven James Landry, Handbook of Human Factors in Air Transportation Systems, page 83. From the entry nonairworthy
• The trouble is, all those well-intentioned scientists who are arguing that we’re not in any imminent danger are basing their arguments on computer models.2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, quoting James Lovelock, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry model
• Imminent Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang has said that everyone’s mother tongue is a topolect, whereas China’s standard spoken language has long been the “teacher tongue.”2007, Samuel Cole, “Learning Putonghua as an adult: a study of four Hong Kong teachers' experiences”, in The University of Hong Kong…. From the entry topolect
• The introduction of a female element into the deity, and a belief in an imminent new divine revelation, formed the core of the Guillelmites’ faith.2001, Shulamith Shahar, translated by Yael Lotan, “Women in the Early Days of the Poor of Lyons”, in Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect…. From the entry Guillelmite
• Early the next morning, GRENADIER was abandoned and scuttled by her own crew to prevent imminent capture by an approaching Japanese merchant ship.1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. GRENADIER (SS210), Loss in Action, Off Malaya, 22 April 1943”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge…. From the entry derangement
• He slapped his documents open on the table and seated himself pontifically, with a certain imminent redness lurking behind the formality of his expression.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 139. From the entry pontifically
• The imminent creation of Great British Railways (GBR) shows that the pendulum is swinging back to a government-managed network, bringing fears of political interference and concerns about long-term investment.2025 October 15, Howard Johnston, “Public versus private: is there any difference?”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 62. From the entry swing back
• Kick off imminent in our third pre-season friendly against Civil Service Strollers - game being played under the unsummerlike grey skies we've been plagued by recently.2024 July 18, Haddington Athletic, Twitter. From the entry unsummerlike
• From predictions of an imminent technological eschaton to theologically inflected ideas of human perfectibility achieved through technological means, there is ample warrant to see transhumanism as culturally other.2016, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Introduction: Technology, Utopianism and Eschatology”, in J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava…. From the entry eschaton
• But her heartfelt proclamation of love for Sawyer and his reaction to her imminent demise made many of us dig Suliet for the first (and last) time.2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page. From the entry Suliet
• Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN. From the entry babylift
• With an eye to the imminent federal budget, Toronto business and civic leaders are set today to name $4.8-billion in "shovel-ready" projects that would stimulate the flagging local economy.2009 January 15, Jennifer Lewington, “Battle brews over ‘shovel ready’ projects”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A12. From the entry shovel-ready
• However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.2007, Freya North, Pillow Talk, Sourcebooks Landmark, published 2011, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry straw-clutchingly
• Note: The element of surprise adds a great deal of intensity to the clench, so try to disguise from your partner the fact that a Donkey Punch is imminent.2004 May 25, Adam Wasson with Jessica Stamen, The Self-Destruction Handbook: 8 Simple Steps to an Unhealthier You, New York: Three Rivers…. From the entry donkey punch
• Marx held that a society from which all sources of conflict, aggression, and evil have been thus extirpated was not only thinkable, but was historically imminent.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon…. From the entry thinkable
• Curtailment was said to be imminent of services on the ex-Caledonian Glasgow-Carlisle main line via Carstairs, also between Glasgow and Lanark and on other ex-C.R. lines in the Glasgow area.1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644. From the entry curtailment

Meaning of imminent

1. adjective About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

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Questions about imminent in a sentence

How do you use imminent in a sentence?

Imminent is used as an adjective. For example: “The guard blew his whistle to indicate imminent departure.”

What is a short sentence with imminent?

“In spite of its subject, imminent death, Mr.”

What does imminent mean?

Imminent means about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.