Example sentences for: imperfect

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

  • Aimer then serves, in the imperfect subjunctive, as the auxiliary verb and is followed by jumbo frankfurter , which is of course an infinitive.

  • To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.

  • The publication of that part of the record we do have, however imperfect, will still, we hope, give new impetus to this enlightening, often fascinating study by providing a foundation on which to build.

  • Adjectives flash before the words Mr. Ripley , with "talented" an imperfect substitute for about 30 other possibilities, including "confused."

  • Specifically, the marriage between macroeconomics and microeconomics--an imperfect but workable union achieved half a century ago, which has allowed economists to combine moderately activist views about monetary policy with otherwise generally free market beliefs--is now being called into question by events.


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