Example sentences for: imminent

How can you use “imminent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An article warns that a Middle East war may be imminent.

  • USA Today and the Washington Post lead with the imminent landfall of Hurricane Floyd somewhere along the southeastern U.S. coast.

  • That same day, the CIA briefed Attorney General Ashcroft on the al Qaeda threat, warning that a significant terrorist attack was imminent.

  • It wins credit for downplaying special effects in favor of story and "exploring the salutary effects of imminent doom" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). But it's said to be otherwise soporific, with too few action scenes and characters who seem oddly cavalier about their impending death.

  • The idea was to feed the computers bits of information like, "The Soviet Air Force chief drank two martinis yesterday," or, "Kruschev isn't reading Pravda on Mondays," from which the computer was to deduce that the Soviets were building a new missile, or that some inner-circle coup was imminent, or whatever.


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