How to Use imminence in a Sentence

imminence

noun

• Should children be taught of the imminence of their own death in much the same way that they are taught their ABCs?
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The snowcapped peak of Monte Viso looms in the distance, a reminder of Christmas’ imminence.
  — Saveur, 16 Dec. 2019
• Despite the march’s imminence, the military council’s spokesman asked for more time to comment.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 30 June 2019
• On what used to be referred to as the far right, but perhaps should now simply be called the armed wing of the Republican Party, the imminence of civil war is a given.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• This was the White House position on the imminence of a potential attack last week, which Ukrainians pushed back strongly against.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 Feb. 2022
• In late afternoon, darkness in the west suggested the stormy imminence of thunder, lightning and rain.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
• The imminence of the election introduces more wrinkles.
  — John Yoo, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• The second is that, given the imminence of the deadline, MPs do not have enough power or time to prevent no-deal—unless the government co-operates.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• In observing how Sunday signaled the sunny imminence of spring, such contrary indicators as the breezy chill of the day ought not be dismissed.
  — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2022
• Given a fear state, the outcome depends heavily on threat imminence.
  — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• What finally jolts him out of his deadening routine is the imminence of actual death.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• While in San Juan there are talks about the imminence of a humanitarian crisis, for him, his wife and two children, this crisis has already begun.
  — Eliván Martínez Mercado, miamiherald, 27 Sep. 2017
• Outside of the legal cognoscenti, this matter has gained little traction: The media and the public remain unaware of this threat, as well as its imminence and gravity.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
• Employers can do this by assessing the nature, severity and imminence of the potential harm and the likelihood the harm will occur.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Mr. Lopez, who typically works in impressionistic black and white, shot in the early mornings and at dusk, when the light itself embodied the imminence of change.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2017
• For now, those check-ins appear to be more about diligence than imminence, with the Clippers seen as being patient before a move, if any, materializes.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• For now, those check-ins appear to be more about diligence than imminence, with the Clippers seen as being patient before a move, if any, materializes.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• The young man protests that is a statement of the obvious, but Roger insists that there is a precise moment in your life when this recognition of imminence seeps into your bones, and then cannot be shaken off ever again.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Instead, imminence might be that musical sensation of time pushing everyone forward at once, like the wind at our backs.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• At a time when the world is grappling with the imminence and enormity of climate change, the continuation of fracking operations moves the U.S. away from its climate goals, not toward them.
  — Chelsea Clinton, STAT, 29 Apr. 2021
• Yet a video of an internal Alaska pilot meeting shows Alaska executives, two weeks before the meltdown on April 1, were keenly aware of the imminence of an acute pilot shortage and the threat of chaos.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Lizzie, the narrator of this novel, is hired to answer e-mails for a prominent professor who lectures widely about the imminence of climate apocalypse.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• Some aides also questioned the imminence of any attack by Iran or its proxies, an assessment reported earlier by CNN.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• The imminence of a U.S. recession has divided market watchers, many of whom are deeply concerned about inflation reaching its highest level in decades.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 19 July 2022
• But almost every hour suggested the imminence of rain, soft rain of the sort that deters few outdoor excursions but seems needed for floral development.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The imminence of the threat is visible from the top of a hill just behind Ms. Soukat’s house: a sprawling development of condos wrapped around a golf course, built by a major real estate developer, Addoha.
  — Aida Alami, New York Times, 7 May 2017
• By Thursday, talk of deterrence was superseded by President Joe Biden’s demand for de-escalation, and the imminence of a ceasefire.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
• The new findings contradict those of a senior official’s recent comments explaining that the bureau had no information to indicate the imminence of damage, injuries and death at a pro-Trump protest near the White House.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 12 Jan. 2021
• According to subsequent accounts by senior editors at the Times, references to imminence and the CIA were removed before the article was published.
  — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021
• But without a reference to the invasion’s imminence, a four-column headline was difficult to justify.
  — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024