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• The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.From the entry tense
• The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.From the entry historic
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:imperfect subjunctive.From the entry imperfect subjunctive
• In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.From the entry express
• Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.From the entry political
• But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings.2013, Wilfrid Lay, The Child's Unconscious Mind. From the entry miscarrying
• It may be an external spirit or an aspect of our own imperfect condition.2011, Graham Woodhouse, Lobsang Gyatso, Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity, Wisdom Publications, page 20. From the entry mara
• There are two past tense aspects and forms in Spanish: the preterite and the imperfect.2011, Jill Rodriguez, Ken Stewart, CliffsNotes Spanish 1 Quick Review, page 118. From the entry preterite tense
• The imperfect prince was a role he could get his arms around.2009, Vincent Bzdek, The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled, →ISBN. From the entry get one's arms around
• Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray, published 2009, page 9. From the entry exhale
• The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 51. From the entry olivine
• Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S.2002, George W. Bush, Commencement Address at West Point. From the entry demerit
• The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.2002, Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, Verso, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry supermannish
• One cannot deny that they too exist in this imperfect world.1944, Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government. From the entry etatism
• By imperfect, we mean a streaked gore or probably a misweave here and there.1909, William Borsodi, Advertising Cyclopedia of Selling Phrases, page 1075. From the entry misweave
• Imperfect themes aside, what the first Zootopia had going for it was its gorgeous animation and evocative character design.2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club. From the entry expressivity
• Test scores are just one imperfect data point, and none of this is to suggest Seattle schools don’t have problems.2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times. From the entry data point
• These well-known examples of the ‘imperfect matching’ or anisomorphism of languages do not really support the conclusion that translation is impossible.2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 82. From the entry anisomorphism
• To be imperfect, but human, is far preferable.2007, Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Sandworms of Dune. From the entry ostensibly
• The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice, page 161. From the entry Baroko
• Are perfect and imperfect aspect or tense or both, in which case, is one or the other predominant?1995, Dialectologia Arabica: A Collection of Articles in Honour of the Sixtieth Birthday of Professor Heikki Palva [a festschrift⁠]…. From the entry cursive
• This record is imperfect, but it is our only one.1978, George Vincent Cohee, Martin Fritz Glaessner, Hollis Dow Hedberg, editors, Contributions to the Geologic Time Scale […] , American…. From the entry geologic time
• “Why not call the unreal indicative the mood of resipiscence to match the imperfect of expergefaction, the imperfect with ᾰρα?”1902, “Brief Mentions”, in Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik…. From the entry expergefaction
• It's little wonder that so many of us struggling with parental burnout became attracted to the rise of imperfect parenting blogs and these 'real' Instamums.2021, Kate Baily, Mandy Manners, Dawn Nickel, Love Yourself Sober: A Self Care Guide to Alcohol-Free Living for Busy Mothers, unnumbered…. From the entry Instamum
• He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times. From the entry globalization
• Perfect systems resist inversion through ignorance while imperfect systems are based on the belief that compromisation is beyond the economic means of any interloper.1988, Luke J. O'Connor, Jennifer Seberry, Public key cryptography: cryptographic significance of the knapsack problem : plus exercises and…. From the entry compromisation
• Inherent electrical errors, which consist of conformity and interaxis errors, result from rotor and stator ellipticity and eccentricity, and imperfect winding and flux distribution.1985, Harold A. Rothbart, Mechanical Design and Systems Handbook, page 41-11. From the entry interaxis
• Indeed, if you try cleaving an imperfect crystal, you may find that it cannot be cleaved as well as a perfect one.1982, Alan Holden, Phylis Morrison, “Cleaving and Gliding Crystals”, in Crystals and Crystal Growing, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press…. From the entry cleavage
• The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.1901, Edith Wharton, chapter 12, in The Valley of Decision. From the entry analogy
• Imperfect curvation, or crookedness of the features, the head, the limbs, the organs, and body, producing malformations of the organs of speech, hearing, and sight.1900, Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton, The Encyclopedia of Face and Form Reading, page 57. From the entry curvation
• And how we accept, repair, and value the resulting flawsome person we continue becoming – as well as the likewise imperfect people, places, objects, and events in our world.2024, Tom Collins and Michele Molitor, I Am Perfectly Flawsome: How Embracing Imperfection Makes Us Better, page 6. From the entry flawsome
• In this supreme moment the imperfect welding of the broken Union is perfected at last, and from this hour the seam of the joining shall no more be visible.2006, Mark Twain, Paul Fatout, Mark Twain Speaking, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry ring down the curtain
• Hydrostructionists, for this reason, have shifted to the use of imperfect concrete pipe, which is culled from construction damaged items or factory mismolds, with a great deal of success.1976, Water Spectrum - Volumes 8-11, page 32. From the entry mismold
• In the first place we shall often be discussing facts which have been so travested by propaganda that your knowledge of them is bound to be imperfect.1963, Lewis A. Coser, editor, Sociology Through Literature, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, page 217. From the entry travest
• The sciolist is dangerous in politics, as elsewhere, because his knowledge is imperfect and superficial and his conceit is apt to be in proportion to his ignorance.1907, Religious Education Association, The Materials of Religious Education: Being the Principal Papers Present at, and the Proceedings of…. From the entry sciolist

Meaning of imperfect

1. adjective Not perfect.
2. adjective Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
3. adjective Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

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Questions about imperfect in a sentence

How do you use imperfect in a sentence?

Imperfect is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.”

What is a short sentence with imperfect?

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:imperfect subjunctive.”

What does imperfect mean?

Imperfect means not perfect.