imminent

IPA: ˈɪmʌnʌnt

adjective

  • About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
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Examples of "imminent" in Sentences

  • With the new term imminent, the school's website says its location has yet to be finalised.
  • The Communist governments of Hungary, Poland, and East Germany were in imminent danger of collapse.
  • Ever since the shooting we have heard a lot about mental illness, and specifically the term imminent danger.
  • Keep an eye on this one ... apparently Obama gave the order to shoot if the hostage was in "imminent danger".
  • For days, the military has publicized what they call the imminent start of Operation Mushtarak, the Dari word for Together.
  • I asked Dave Gallo, the director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, whether the oceans are in imminent danger of sponge-related desertification.
  • And one hardly has to believe that Social Security is in imminent crisis to understand that it needs its revenue, and probably a bit more, to keep up promised payments starting in the 2040s.
  • He used the term imminent because that is the legal requirement in the UN Charter, to which the US is a signatory and which is based upon the Nuremberg Charter established at the end of the Second World War.
  • Since the federal government has failed absolutely to deal with the issue of illegal immigration and border security, my next guest proposes his own plan to handle what he calls the imminent invasion from Mexico.

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