Example Sentences

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"From this fools' paradise, however, in which we supposed that all we have to do is to keep Hitler at bay until American deliveries win the war for us, we must imperatively and immediately depart."

From Time Magazine Archive

At the door of an apartment on rubble-heaped Kurf�rstendamm, a British noncom banged imperatively.

From Time Magazine Archive

Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man lifts his stick and waves imperatively, and slowly the column turns and the people take the road that, quite evidently, leads to nowhere for them.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could feel the skillful hand of fate motivating hrm imperatively.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller