Example sentences for: incipient

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

  • All the while, Nash was showing an intense interest in the state of Israel--often a sign of incipient insanity, at least in a non-Jew.

  • The third pole is the government, which must intervene to insure that the incipient relationship of “involuntary servitude” shall not exist.

  • Some carping, however: Costumes by Kawakubo are said to make dancers look like they have "incipient elephant-man disease" and to obscure their movements (Joan Acocella, the Wall Street Journal ). (B.A.M.

  • The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"

  • It is a 20 th -century American habit to portray adolescents as incipient juvenile delinquents, when not idealizing them as "the future of our society."


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