IMPERATIVE in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for IMPERATIVE, such as:
1. But haste was becoming imperative.
2. It is imperative to meet face to face with the client.
3. It was imperative that he act as naturally as possible.
4. It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week.
5. Job creation has become an imperative for the government.
2. It is imperative to meet face to face with the client.
3. It was imperative that he act as naturally as possible.
4. It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week.
5. Job creation has become an imperative for the government.
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Meanings and Examples of IMPERATIVE
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imperative
a. relating to verbs in the imperative mood
n. some duty that is essential and urgent
Classic Sentence:
1 Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht.
2 It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.
3 Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.
4 A dark, wild face was seen, for a moment, to glance at the window of the house; and, as Legree opened the door, a female voice said something, in a quick, imperative tone.
5 Noirtier cast an appealing look on Valentine, which look was at once so earnest and imperative, that she answered immediately.
6 "You lie," repeated the abbe a third time, with a still more imperative tone.
7 This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief.
8 "You must let me speak," said the woman, in an imperative voice, and her face contracted as if in pain.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
9 I therefore tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go.
10 But haste was becoming imperative.
11 These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and imperative and ruled his slightest actions.
12 I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
13 Pearl, looking at this bright wonder of a house began to caper and dance, and imperatively required that the whole breadth of sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play with.
14 When the requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound respect.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS
15 This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if the child were not given to him he would disinherit him.
Example Sentence:
1 It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week.
2 It was imperative that he act as naturally as possible.
3 It is imperative for your recovery to continue the treatment for at least two months.
4 It is imperative to meet face to face with the client.
5 It remains imperative that all sides should be involved in the talks.
6 It is imperative that politicians should be good communicators.
7 Job creation has become an imperative for the government.
8 Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
9 It is imperative that we stanch the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries.
10 With Faubus, who had genuine populist impulses, racism was a political imperative.
11 The defence team deployed peremptory challenges, which can be used by both sides for purely strategic reasons with no imperative to justify their use, to nix Indigenous people from being considered as jurors.