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How to use incipient in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective, noun

Incipient means in an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence. Example: “After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.”

Examples of incipient by meaning

adjectiveIn an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

  • After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
  • Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.
  • It may even be that because of incipient satiation, the shares of the marginal dollar display consumption propensities that are the reverse of the ones exhibited by the average dollar.1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 115

More sentences with incipient

  • An incipient storm cell was visible on doppler.From the entry doppler
  • The incipient bipolarist undertone of this document also owed much to Hansen's view of the economic factors.1992, Carlo Maria Santoro, Diffidence and ambition: the intellectual sources of U.S. foreign policy. From the entry bipolarist
  • In front of each ear was something that appeared to be incipient whiskerings.1927, Joseph Storer Clouston, The Lunatic in Love, page 161. From the entry whiskering
  • Among the latter, incipient nephritis and metabolic anomalies, as xanthemia, arthritis uritica, oxaluria are common.1902, Heinrich Stern, “On the treatment of obesity”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 38. From the entry xanthemia
  • They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff.1902, Edwin Hurry Fenwick, Obscure Diseases of the Urethra, page 30. From the entry thickening
  • The very success of the ‘neo-liberal’ agenda, embraced to a greater or lesser extent by governments of all complexions, has created an incipient political monster.2011, Guy Standing, chapter 1, in The Precariat, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN. From the entry neo-liberal
  • As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1. From the entry irredentist
  • While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hodophobe
  • The first time they meet, he delicately touches his prey, surveying the surface of her body, from her incipient pubic hair to her unnaturally large toes.2004 October 26, Ilan Stavans, “Love: ageless in its power”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications…. From the entry large toe
  • This corticating cell divides rapidly to form a further outer layer of 2-4 corticating cells and in many cases cuts off anteriorly a darkly staining incipient tetrasporangial initial.1982, Australian Journal of Botany, volume 30, page 333. From the entry corticating
  • Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.1963, Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, page 87. From the entry pedicel
  • The structure resulting is in many respects suggestive of an incipient columella, but at no stage of development is it sufficiently marked to be termed columelloid.1935, Grove, Brandon H., “Studies in Paleozoic Corals. III.-A Revision of Some Mississippian Zaphrentids”, in The American Midland…. From the entry columelloid
  • He had a fresh complexion, eyes of that common uncertain shade of gray, and was closely shaven except for the incipient muttonchops on his ruddy cheeks.1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in Troll Garden. From the entry muttonchop

Meaning of incipient

  1. adjective In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
  2. noun A beginner.
  3. noun A verb tense of the Hebrew language.

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Questions about incipient in a sentence

How do you use incipient in a sentence?
Incipient is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.”
What is a short sentence with incipient?
“After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.”
What does incipient mean?
Incipient means in an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

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