IMPERIAL in a Sentence

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77 example sentences for IMPERIAL, such as:

1. Her attitude is imperious at times.
2. The professor was as imperious as ever.
3. A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial.
4. A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
5. It imperiously overruled not only the Florida court but also the federal appeals court in Atlanta.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPERIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imperial
 a.  like an emperor; related to an empire; ruling over extensive territories
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  An official from St. Petersburg sent by imperial order has arrived, and wants to see you all at once.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In LAST SCENE
2  Next day the imperial gentleman-in-waiting, the Comte de Turenne, came to Balashev and informed him of the Emperor Napoleon's wish to honor him with an audience.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
3  Though Balashev was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury and magnificence of Napoleon's court.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
4  His full face, rather young-looking, with its prominent chin, wore a gracious and majestic expression of imperial welcome.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
5  The Emperor, moreover, had with him not a commander-in-chief's staff but the imperial headquarters staff.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
6  In attendance on him was the head of the imperial staff, Quartermaster General Prince Volkonski, as well as generals, imperial aides-de-camp, diplomatic officials, and a large number of foreigners, but not the army staff.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
7  Kutuzov had received the Order of St. George of the First Class and the Emperor showed him the highest honors, but everyone knew of the imperial dissatisfaction with him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
8  After the imperial profile disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his cross.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
9  He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
10  A czarina who should see a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other face.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
11  A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
12  At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, made its appearance at the window of the coupe.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
13  At the age when youth swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant blushes of wretchedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
14  He entered, after having twisted his mustache and elongated his imperial, which always announced on his part the most triumphant resolutions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
15  From the cliffs across the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  Yet we lack the willingness, and perhaps the ability, to make the sacrifices necessary to maintain imperial dominion over that region.
2  Her attitude is imperious at times.
3  The professor was as imperious as ever.
4  A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
5  He is imperious and dictatorial; never try to persuade him.
6  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
7  He waited imperiously for their attention before he began his carefully composed talk, delivered in portentous tones.
8  It imperiously overruled not only the Florida court but also the federal appeals court in Atlanta.