How to Use impetuous in a Sentence

impetuous

adjective

• He's always been an impetuous young man.
• The way in which the agreement came about seemed impetuous.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2018
• Some members of your household might be in the mood for impetuous fun.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2020
• The baron was an old man and barely able to defend himself against the young and impetuous Guise, who killed the baron with a single thrust.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• But the court is also where the impetuous teen gets into a tiff with a local gangster, with whom Will ends up in jail overnight.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• Gods help the realm now that her husband, the impetuous Prince Daemon (Matt Smith), is now a single father.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• And like an impetuous first-time driver, Bam might have overstepped his bounds.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• At one point, there was also a late-night scramble to stop the impetuous Mr. Trump from wreaking havoc in a key state.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• Williams was an impetuous teenager; his parents bought him a mountain bike to try to keep him out of trouble.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
• Moral of the story: Don’t be a bunch of impatient, impetuous knee-jerks who call for their coach to be fired at the first sign of adversity.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• On the flip side, there is an impetuous and impulsive nature to the angel number 555.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
• As its impetuous behavior makes clear, the group thinks and acts exclusively in the short term.
  — Ali Soufan, Newsweek, 19 June 2017
• As a coach Tuberville earned a nickname of his own, the Riverboat Gambler, for his impetuous play-calling.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
• The cause of this disaster: an impetuous rush to innovate.
  — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 7 June 2018
• Be on your guard about impetuous spending sprees and salespeople who try to persuade you.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
• The plot picks up when one of the most respected herders leaves his animals in the care of his impetuous son, Ivvar, who meets Mad Lasse’s daughter Willa.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• So if Mnuchin can’t find a way to offset enough of them, Reed and others may balk—and the Treasury secretary will be forced to go back to his impetuous boss and tell him the team has lost again.
  — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2017
• Seth projects a younger, more impetuous vision of the strong, silent vibe that made Wild Bill a paragon of 1880s white American masculinity.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The baritone Joshua Hopkins was a standout as the impetuous Mercutio.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• There’s the impetuous studio boss who wants to hand the project over to another director who hacks away pages of dialogue.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Coaches and teammates loved his spunk and come-at-me demeanor, but that impetuous nature often caused more harm than good.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2018
• Others decided, in a more impetuous fashion, to go all-in on this season.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
• The characters all hew to the archetypes Martin originally set forth, in that Kristy is bossy and sometimes impetuous.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• These eager young players were at their impetuous best during the frenetic episodes of the last movement.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 23 July 2017
• Bruno is a youthful and impetuous man with a salesman’s bluster and a high-end decorator’s taste.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2017
• At work, his firings were almost as impetuous as his hirings, and his employees describe him as an ogre and a tyrant.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2021
• To his critics this was the kind of idea that underlined just how ignorant and impetuous the President was.
  — Peter Bergen, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
• The apartment opens with a ridged console and vintage pinup art, a nod to Swinton’s strong-willed (if impetuous) character.
  — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 18 Mar. 2021
• Before the jury, Spiro’s core argument was that an impetuous tweet shouldn’t get someone sued.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Instead, its actions have been impetuous and its rewards far from assured.
  — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024