IMPERFECT in a Sentence
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54 example sentences for IMPERFECT, such as:
1. Love blinds a man to imperfections.
2. Our understanding of cancer remains imperfect.
3. Soot is usually the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.
4. Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
5. Lily made a movement which showed her imperfect assimilation of this example.
2. Our understanding of cancer remains imperfect.
3. Soot is usually the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.
4. Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
5. Lily made a movement which showed her imperfect assimilation of this example.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of IMPERFECT
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imperfect
n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
a. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1 Lily made a movement which showed her imperfect assimilation of this example.
2 It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.
3 He at once explained that the black woman's offensive conduct was all due to imperfect training, as he was not there to take her in hand.
4 Then, changing his language, he continued, adhering to the imperfect nomenclature of his provincial instructors.
5 Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
6 A faint light glimmered through its cracks, however, and announced that, notwithstanding its imperfect structure, it was not without a tenant.
7 In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
8 Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream.
9 She watched the return of the supposed ecclesiastic, with the purpose of addressing him, and interesting him in favour of the prisoners; with what imperfect success the reader has been just acquainted.
10 His body was a foolish, impudent, imperfect thing, a little disgusting in its unfinished clumsiness.
11 My impression of it is, of course, imperfect; but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back.
12 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
13 His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment in it appeared so imperfect.
14 So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.
15 An unhappy culprit, found guilty of imperfect exercise, approaches at his command.
Example Sentence:
1 Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting.
2 Fed up with this imperfect universe, Don would have liked to run off to Shangri-la or some other imaginary utopia.
3 Soot is usually the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.
4 Our understanding of cancer remains imperfect.
5 Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
6 Minor skin imperfections can usually be disguised with a spot of make-up.
7 Love blinds a man to imperfections.