How to Use imperious in a Sentence

imperious

adjective
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  • Founder fans cheered Apple’s late Steve Jobs, imperious but effective.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Big, imperious four-doors that can effortlessly roll along the autobahn at triple-digit speeds in silence and comfort, ones that announce their owner as a person of not just means, but purpose.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The old, imperious king of the parquet, Kyrie, is gone, long live the new king, Kemba.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • The imperious Citizens flew out of the blocks and banged three goals in the first 18 minutes.
    — SI.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The grand finale of the week was a tour of the home of Gunsite’s late founder, an imperious and erudite racist named Jeff Cooper.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Miss Jane (Angourie Rice), the princess of the group, is imperious and judgmental.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • The more heavy-handed and imperious the top dog becomes, the stronger your rallying cry grows.
    — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Tucked in among ferns and spongy beds of moss, the pale green sculptures are imposing, even imperious.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Djokovic hit back in an imperious second set and took control of the decider with a strong service game to move 4-1 up.
    — Jerome Pugmire, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The address marked a shift for a man protesters have branded as out-of-touch and imperious.
    — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The Tiger Woods who spoke this week at The Masters seemed more nostalgic than imperious.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Set back from the road behind a low wall, the 1920s building is both stately and slightly imperious.
    — Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Play to the judges and run through a gamut of expressions: sultry, imperious, flirty.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Krieps plays Sisi with both imperious grandeur and a sense of humor, a fine line to walk, even on slender, regal ankles.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Kevin De Bruyne was in imperious form yet again and was heavily involved in all three goals.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • While he’s not been able to reach his imperious best for a while, the fact Murray is still playing on the tour after all his injuries is a feat in itself.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Nobody need depend on the imperious style of, say, the nineties Martha Stewart—or on the know-how of their parents or high-school teachers, for that matter.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • In an act of imperious adolescent spite, that trombone player had opened his bottle and poured the oil on my head.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But Djokovic looked imperious from the get-go, breaking Medvedev in his opening service game and twice holding his own with ease to race into a 3-0 lead.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Among other things, Olivia Ercolano summons the imperious nature of the Red Queen.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Clov works for Hamm (John Douglas Thompson), an imperious blind man who sits in a chair bolted to a wheeled platform—a kind of makeshift wheelchair.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The character, played by Jayne Houdyshell, was the imperious overseer of the Arconia apartment building where the show is set.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 5 July 2022
  • The iconic staircase walk isn’t so much an imperious return as a dash toward old friends.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
  • The message from both titans—you ain’t seen nothing yet—was imperious.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Americans are gone, but their imperious scars linger.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Nov. 2020
  • But the 5-year-old Aurore was her grandmother’s namesake, and the imperious Madame Dupin reclaimed her.
    — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • But, for the members of the Vienna Circle, metaphysics was a queen like Marie Antoinette—imperious, out of touch, and ripe for the guillotine.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • He was taken under the wing of the imperious king-maker, the artist manager Ronald Wilford.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Both models are all-wheel-drive and offer 536 horsepower, but which is the better fit for an imperious luxo-sedan?
    — Greg Pajo, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In the best moments, that yields inspired scenes like Russell Crowe as a portly, imperious Zeus addressing a summit of the Gods.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 July 2022

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