How To Use Imminent In A Sentence

Our main and imminent danger lay in the sudden dissolution of the ice, or in the capsizal of the berg. The Honour of the Flag
The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival. Times, Sunday Times
No wonder that stories of its imminent demise are commonplace. Times, Sunday Times
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder. THE RED ONE
The fifth is the detective working one last case before his imminent retirement. Times, Sunday Times

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The protester, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts, sunglasses and a beanie hat, showed no imminent signs of coming down.
I dwelt on how she emerged from a coma shortly after her imminent demise had been predicted. Times, Sunday Times
What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
Speculation about an imminent revaluation of China's renminbi against the dollar reached a fever pitch last week in the markets.
But he's pushing ahead: On Wednesday, Mr. Anwar vowed to run for parliament "imminently" in a by-election, with the aim of toppling the government by September. It's Déjà Vu for Malaysia's Opposition Leader
He announced the imminent arrival of a messianic leader.
These supplies were the last hope of the U.S. forces for reinforcing their depleted divisions and stopping the enemy's imminent breakthrough.
The authorities must do what is necessary now to avoid the imminent chaos that is the likely derivative of a disillusioned faction of our society - disillusion aided by consistent disregard.
An unexploded bomb is lodged ominously in the courtyard, a neat visual allegory for the sense of imminent threat in the film. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the imminent introduction of wide-bodied aircraft threatened to shake up the entire industry for the second time in ten years.
It also carries with it the slightly queasy feeling that one naturally feels when trying to save the economy from imminent collapse. Times, Sunday Times
They would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival. Conqueror's Moon
We are expecting the completion of the first two imminently.
The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction.
His fondness for chromaticism was such that Schoenberg suspected he would soon join the ranks of the atonalists, but for Reger chromaticism was a means of expanding the resources of tonality, not a harbinger of its imminent collapse.
The regime is crumbling fast and its proud, stubborn old President faces the imminent prospect of defeat. Times, Sunday Times
But as the full seizure of power by the Nazis became imminent, and as Stalin colluded with it more and more openly, he abandoned mere class analysis, as in the following passage: The Old Man
Protests have erupted over the imminent layoff of 3,000 workers. Times, Sunday Times
- ReutersOf course, note the use of the phrase imminently - still sounds like hedging to me. 09/22/2004
The imminent campaign to attract staff from outside Scotland is prompted by concerns about the ageing teacher population and new commitments on class sizes.
Valery conveys a sense of the viewer's charged state and the imminent darkness in his exclamatory tones, alternating lines with choppy rhythms with those that hurtle towards their close.
An announcement about his resignation is imminent.
A month later union leaders were drafted in following fears the firm's wood mill was facing imminent closure, with more finished products being shipped in from abroad.
The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
The thought remains imminent - just below perception, and bubbles up in strangely symbolic dreams and eruptions of irrationality in your everyday life like cryptic, confusing posts on a weblog.
To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love. Apologia Diffidentis
Residents fear a major accident is imminent, as a consequence of the excess speed of vehicles.
As Hitler's imminent demise was scented, Stalin rose to new heights of prestige at home and abroad.
The global measurements to be provided by the imminent GRACE mission and by continuing efforts in satellite altimetry are expected to provide a definitive solution to this important climatological and geophysical puzzle.
The poem depicts the workings of an imminent deity that has the power to reanimate himself in every ‘face’ and take on the form of any human being, even the ‘dark skins His Father wrought.’
I was suffering from terrible stomach cramps and in imminent danger of letting go at either end. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
There is imminent danger of collapse into the narrow channel that allows fishing boats and pleasure craft access to the deep, protected inner harbour.
Is a move from the battle of the bulge brackets to the battle of the bulge imminent? Times, Sunday Times
Bond traders believe the fall in the yield in short-dated bonds to record lows last week indicates that a half-point cut to 3% is imminent.
But this isn’t the first time a world leader constructed a wall between himself and those he deemed imminent threats. Smithsonian Mag
My room sways with foreknowledge of its imminent destruction. A MEANS TO EVIL
The claim to imminent demise is silly on elementary logical grounds. Christianity Today
Although no one was harmed in either incident, police chiefs warned that marksmen are authorised to open fire when they believe life is being ‘imminently threatened’.
She caught his eye, and her faculties, sharpened by the imminent peril, read relentment there. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
But, in the space of 48 hours, what sounded on Sunday like an imminent threat to financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington has metamorphosed into an imbroglio of disarray and confusion, with a dash of farce thrown in.
Suleman, who lives in the La Habra home with her 14 children, told the KROQ radio show "Kevin & Bean" on Thursday that she is no longer in imminent danger of losing her house. Nadya Suleman Avoids Welfare, Eviction By One Month
I dwelt on how she emerged from a coma shortly after her imminent demise had been predicted. Times, Sunday Times
She said the pair became convinced the kitchen was an ‘imminent risk to public health’ after finding it strewn with discarded pizza bases, gravy and salad.
Three more restaurants have opened and more are scheduled to open imminently.
All this comes at a bad time for Big Pharma, which is facing the imminent expiration of patents on many of its blockbusters and fewer-than-expected new drugs in the pipeline.
She is at risk of imminent execution after her death sentence for adultery was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Fully comprehending the imminent danger, Warren sent to General Meade for a division.
Such inconsistency is interesting, though, and almost inevitable when one sees fit to defend the English language from “plagues”, “attacks”, and presumably imminent doom. “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood
BISHO (ECN Thursday 28 August 1997) - The imminent R2-million pay rise for Bisho MPLs and MECs, who daily bemoan the tight provincial budget and face financial crises in most departments, has got the politicians to stop talking for once. ANC Daily News Briefing
Following Fredric Jameson, he holds out hope that history may yet get beyond aporias to reveal a genuine contradiction ‘with its lurking sense of imminent solution or mediation’.
As a conversionary movement, millennialism seeks to create an exclusionary circle of the elect who can read and share the signs of imminent and immanent history.
ROME (AP) At least 70 flights at Rome's main Leonardo da Vinci airport were canceled Wednesday by a ground workers protest against job cuts that are part of Alitalia's imminent relaunch. 70 Rome flights canceled by protest
The preseismic linear polarization feature of geoelectric field is typically imminent, which is of some significance in location and time prediction of future earthquakes.
For those already mourning the imminent void in jump racing's rich tapestry, there is heartening news. Times, Sunday Times
Her remarks were intended to scotch rumours of an imminent election date.
He was asked by the CIA to leave, once the onrush of the revolution seemed imminent.
Once more it was unclear which way power would swing; yet again civil war appeared imminent. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
Reality TV has taken over our airwaves and - by crikey - tears were imminent.
But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
He gave a dire warning that an earthquake was imminent.
These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig. The Abbot
The tone of imminent threat is crucial to the book but too often feels histrionic. Times, Sunday Times
He was faced with imminent death.
People experiencing chest pain too often come to the emergency room, with subsequent electrocardiogram, also called EKG, readings not showing any evidence that a heart attack has occurred, but still leaving open the question of whether or not a heart attack is imminent and about to happen or has already happened, adds Van Eyk, director of the Johns Hopkins NHLBI Proteomics Group and the Proteomics Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where the protein analysis took place. RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News
That leaves the question of how immediate or imminent the threatened violence needs to be.
In the new era which Mark believes is dawning, the temple is rejected and its imminent destruction is expected.
The tone of imminent threat is crucial to the book but too often feels histrionic. Times, Sunday Times
The imminent abolition of the current transfer system will only increase a worrying trend.
The envelope was not to be opened until an attack was imminent. Spitfire Women of World War II
Was it necessary to show an imminent danger to health or safety?
When his ship was becalmed for three days, his men grew alarmed, thinking that they had reached a shore and were in imminent danger of running aground.
Her remarks were intended to scotch rumours of an imminent election date.
One man was ordered to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent.
An inspection is expected imminently.
But this isn’t the first time a world leader constructed a wall between himself and those he deemed imminent threats. Smithsonian Mag
The system is in imminent danger of collapse.
Sources close to the owners played down the chances of an imminent sale, but bankers say strong summer profits could entice buyers. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, the prime impulse behind the campaign to save nature, and expressly to husband wilderness, was aghast awareness of its imminent disappearance, in tandem with conscience-stricken guilt at their forebears' rapacity and greed.
Without such reforms the country faces an imminent economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Some roads are already built and construction of buildings on the site is imminent.
He was at one and the same instant all modern, all imminently primitive, capable of fighting in redness of tooth and claw, desirous of remaining modern for as long as he could with his will master the study of ebon black of skin and dazzling white of decoration that confronted him. CHAPTER IX
Their imminent frontality is buoyant and percussive -- somewhere between a wall of water and a wall of flame. The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist
After five days in the hideout, the rebels told them a new attack was imminent. Times, Sunday Times
It has been hit by credit fears but posted record interim profits this week, and acquisitions are said to be imminent. Times, Sunday Times
In the end, is it about imminent threats or about picking fights you can win?
Halford said that "kettling" is legally justifiable only when there is no alternative to address actual or imminent violence.
Millward was interviewed via satellite link-up for the imminent vacancy at Wests Tigers last week.
However, despite the grave and imminent danger posed by this threat, the national threat-levels are not going to be raised.
Britain's top policeman, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, has warned an attack in London is both imminent and inevitable.
The medic then checked his carotic (ph) pulse, which was barely palpable and quickly deteriorated; and which he determined, therefore, that Zarqawi's death was imminent. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006
The definitive insolvency of the country now is an imminent threat. Times, Sunday Times
Victorian damsels madly anticipate his imminent arrival.
With the school Easter holiday imminent - traditionally the moment when the tourist season kicks off in earnest - visitor attractions around the region are revealing their new crowd-pullers.
Enforcement was possible only when a discharge reduced the quality of the receiving water below the specified ambient level, or to prevent an imminent health hazard.
I read that Labour donors who were proxies for Abrahams due to be arrested 'imminently' Archive 2008-01-01
The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
The envelope was not to be opened until an attack was imminent. Spitfire Women of World War II
She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom.
That suggests to me that he is not a man who feels under imminent serious threat. Times, Sunday Times
But imminent death changed all of this. Christianity Today
As others have concluded, the foreshock sequence (Fig. 7) was the most important evidence used in the imminent prediction of the Haicheng earthquake. ......
There was rioting on the streets; civil war seemed imminent. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
A justiciable case must present actual injury, or an imminent threat of injury.
Decisions are due imminently.
He announced the imminent arrival of a messianic leader.
But Dakota seems undaunted by imminent stardom. Times, Sunday Times
The second is messianism, the expectation of imminent transformation of the world.
As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches.
Are you sitting by yourself, eating corn chips, hung-over, depressed about your imminent breakdown, or the news?
Were it not that all that the characters talk about is her imminent death, you could almost forget she was there. Times, Sunday Times
Erich Follath, le même auteur, fait de suspectes allégations pendant que reseaux d'espions israélien démantelé au Liban et que les élections sont imminentes. WN.com - Photown News
A new phenomenon a youth subculture had reared its head, but the Comet seemed satisfied that the borough was not in imminent danger of being overrun.
Gibson used the word "preemptively" - but if a knowledgeable person had pushed back on that point ( "Well, preemption was what John F. Kennedy had in mind in acting against the imminent threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba"), Gibson would certainly have come back to explain the novelty of the "preventive war" point. Later On
With a shadow of imminent disaster hanging over their homeland, they now appear to be the lucky ones.
On 28 July 1914, with the black wrack of imminent war rolling in from the east, Churchill requisitioned them both for the Royal Navy.
Whatever were occasionally the triumphs of this daring cateran, they were often exchanged for reverses; and his narrow escapes, rapid flights, and the ingenious stratagems with which he extricated himself from imminent danger, were no less remembered and admired than the exploits in which he had been successful. Chronicles of the Canongate
With the new term imminent, the school's website says its location has yet to be finalised. The 24 pioneering free schools
While the company warned that this might not continue indefinitely — quoth the prospectus, "sellers may become increasingly sophisticated about the valuation and prices of their forests and may demand higher premiums for high quality forests" — that loss of advantage isn't necessarily inevitable or imminent. China's Forest Versus Hong Kong's Trees
They don't pull the joystick until the tailspin is imminent.
In several European countries, the poultry industry appears to be in imminent danger of ruin.
The letters said further contact would be made when payment was imminent. Times, Sunday Times
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from color and light into sweet thunder. The Red One
I unclasped my seat belt and locked all the doors, my utmost security measure in case of imminent fright, while I stared outside looking for a sign of life.
The tone of imminent threat is crucial to the book but too often feels histrionic. Times, Sunday Times
The simplest reason to not worry about dysgenics is the imminent arrival of at least limited human germline engineering. Where Dysgenics Goes Wrong: Comparative Advantage Strikes Again, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It also carries with it the slightly queasy feeling that one naturally feels when trying to save the economy from imminent collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Is a move from the battle of the bulge brackets to the battle of the bulge imminent? Times, Sunday Times
But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise.
He had felt the menace, known that it existed, and the slogan ringing always in his ears, the Whispered "Death to the Gray Seal" had taken on a deeper significance, had brought him a more acute and imminent sense of peril than ever before; but it was only last night, for the first time, that he had equally _felt_ that he had had any concrete knowledge of, or contact with this new antagonist. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
As the bulldog descended, his prey — an outsize boar with a wide “three-finger” hoofprint — sensed its imminent demise, and bolted past Clifford and the trailing pack. The Boar War
If the deformations betoken imminent disaster, alarms will be sounded.
Is a move from the battle of the bulge brackets to the battle of the bulge imminent? Times, Sunday Times
It was triggered by the prospect of imminent death. Times, Sunday Times
Judging by the talent on display at the trials, a fifteenth Varsity win and a place in the final eight appear once again to be imminent.
The letters said further contact would be made when payment was imminent. Times, Sunday Times
Influenced by scare stories about an imminent invasion, over-reaction is a distinct possibility.
He was in imminent danger of dying.
The deal will apparently be announced "imminently". Goodwin's RBS Said In Talks Over Hotel Purchase
The appointment made conservatives nervous, seemingly confirming their fears that a liberal onslaught was imminent.
We return to the Strokes and the imminent 15th anniversary. Times, Sunday Times
He is mentioned almost weekly as the heir apparent to some imminently vacant throne.
The guard blew his whistle to warn of the train's imminent departure.
Is a move from the battle of the bulge brackets to the battle of the bulge imminent? Times, Sunday Times
There it was big as life ... or imminent death — the circumflex artery was 90 to 99 percent blocked. Ray McGovern: Why single-payer health insurance is close to his heart
The Australian Government expresses its support for the democratic opposition in Serbia in its current efforts to force Mr Milosevic to relinquish power and welcomes what we hope is the imminent restoration of democracy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Developments in Yugoslavia
First they demanded we agree there was no serious or imminent danger compelling us to withdraw our labour.
That leaves the question of how immediate or imminent the threatened violence needs to be.
According to the Washington Post, Clarke then ordered every counterterrorist office to put domestic rapid-response teams on shorter alert, to cancel vacations and defer nonvital travel; in short, to be in the highest possible state of readiness against an imminent attack. House of Bush, House of Saud
A global growth spurt is imminent. Times, Sunday Times
Further, the news that the kilo is in such imminent danger of extinction will no doubt be seen as a vindication by Brits reluctant to sell their fruit and veg in metric units.
The scarlet phone that warns emergency staff of imminent arrivals. Times, Sunday Times
Note 2: Delaborde, 1: 111: "Ad tactum clavi et spinee corone et brachii sancti Simeonis per totum ventrem pueri in modum crucis, eodem die ab imminenti periculo est liberatus; et pater suus Philippus rex in transmarinis partibus existens, eodem die et eadem hora, a consimili morbo curatus. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
It says the measure will come into force after its publication in the official gazette, which is expected "imminently". BBC News - Home
Credit rating agency Standard and Poors has scotched claims that the economy has bottomed out and recovery is imminent.
The prospect has raised expectations of an imminent release. Times, Sunday Times
The claim to imminent demise is silly on elementary logical grounds. Christianity Today
In the last few days of September the data was nerve-rackingly unclear, which meant that a sale might be imminent. The Facebook Effect
However, the imminent release of the Mevira and Signum models will help stop the rot.
I recognized the stench, the aura that hung in the air; thick and palpable… a portent of imminent death.
The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the imminent crisis in its balance of payments may be the President's nemesis.
For those already mourning the imminent void in jump racing's rich tapestry, there is heartening news. Times, Sunday Times
Spencer Parsons: "A little less than a year since the first public screenings, Warner Bros. has called the kibosh on performances of Brad Neely's Wizard People, Dear Reader, though no official legal action has been taken, and none appears imminent. GreenCine Daily
The imminent threat of Malcolm's death or long-term permanent paralysis and vegetative state from serious brain damage had immobilized and terrified them.
In the days before the wireless, he was trained to bear news of imminent bad weather from island to island.
This approach could be properly characterized as imminently sensible, though not hugely courageous. Undefined
In the days before the wireless, he was trained to bear news of imminent bad weather from island to island.
Follath, le même auteur, fait de suspectes allégations pendant que reseaux d'espions israélien démantelé au Liban et que les élections sont imminentes. WN.com - Photown News
With war imminent, the US is becoming increasingly isolated diplomatically.
The rumor of an imminent merger between Volkswagen and Chrysler was leaked by Automotive News, the weekly trade journal of the car industry.
He uses an image from the process of photographic development, whose obsolescence is imminent due to the advent of digital photography.
Contemporary society, like contemporary dictators, can no longer be undermined by ridicule, Zizekexplains that "GrouchoMarx authoritarianism" is imminent, writers understand that the function of Dada and all intervention/provication movements is exhausted in an age where a self-satisfied social norm has dialectically synthesized with surrealism and the rest ... Mr.Dostoevsky
They fled the scene for fear of imminent implosion.
Once this document is signed - which is expected imminently - it's obviously too late to change anything.
The imminent arrival of January's annual pain in the wallet, otherwise known as the electricity bill, is an example of the mundane logistics of life that are preoccupying me.
There was rioting on the streets; civil war seemed imminent. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
It emphasised that there was'absolutely no information or intelligence' suggesting an imminent threat. Times, Sunday Times
hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth
My disfellowshipping was imminent, but hadnt been officially announced yet, so it was technically safe for her to talk to me. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
By its very nature, this imminent node–antinode state is expected to make global temperature vary significantly above and below a common mean which itself may be approximately constant or may at certain times undergo relatively slow drifts. Unthreaded « Climate Audit
The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman whose death by stoning is ever-imminent, has become a mainstay on the docket of news reportage which dutifully highlights the savagery of Islamic law. Beenish Ahmed: Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys
Instead of a funeral, we have the imminent birth of triplets. Times, Sunday Times
The guard blew his whistle to warn of the train's imminent departure.
The Fogg is circulating the show in celebration of the museum's imminent centennial.
A government spokeswoman said a replacement for him would be announced "imminently".
But this isn’t the first time a world leader constructed a wall between himself and those he deemed imminent threats. Smithsonian Mag
However, this entry seems to presage Kenny's imminent defeat, and in so doing raises the ethnic issue once again.
There is one state that is an infallible indicator of imminent doom: suffering.
The atmospherics are a very Dickensian prelude to some imminent human violence in Martin Chuzzlewit, published in 1844. Weatherwatch: A storm is brewing
Tiles have fallen from the roof of the small chapel and the entrance archway looks in danger of imminent collapse.
I like this attitude: irrespective of age, anyone undaunted by imminent parenthood will probably be hopeless.
The patter of tiny paws is imminent. Times, Sunday Times
Liz, the greenhorn TV journalist in Correspondent, struggles to maintain her identity and ideals in the face of imminent danger, horrifying atrocities and an indifferent newsroom.
One of the world's most renowned conservationists has accused the Kenyan government of protecting the poaching networks driving elephants and rhinos towards imminent extinction. Times, Sunday Times

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