We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of imminence in inglés
portugués
iminência catalán
imminència The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon.
Usage of imminence in inglés
1
He sighed with a full sense of the imminence of the inevitable.
2
On the contrary, people refused to believe in the imminence of danger.
3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
4
But the very imminence of the danger restored to him his energy.
5
The sound from whose imminence Bobby had shrunk rattled in his ears.
6
We sensed its imminence, and could hear its thunder to the northeast.
7
Henry recognized the imminence of his danger, but he steeled his nerves.
8
An irrational feeling of the octoroon's imminence spurred him to fast eating.
9
The imminence of death seemed to have whipped up the consensual libido.
10
The voyage seems full of promise in spite of the imminence of delay.
11
There was that in them that showed the haunting imminence of something terrible.
12
The imminence of the peril inspired the Uzcoques with unwonted courage and energy.
13
The imminence of the danger drove the Jolly Rovers into a helpless panic.
14
The imminence of war produced a peculiar exaltation in Aunt Wilshire.
15
But I return to the subject of the imminence of death.
16
The imminence of tragedy had swept the space about them empty of people.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Imminence through the time
Imminence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common