Example Sentences

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That America is not merely feared but also respected is, he argues, proof that it has done something right even in its imperfectness.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020

They are all weird and imperfect and amazing in their weird imperfectness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

It’s a description of a struggle, my struggle, and it is everyday life, misunderstandings and failings and the whole world of imperfectness.

From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014

She felt, too, without comprehending, the imperfectness of all earthly felicity.

From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone

Just so, but I had overlooked one thing, and that was the imperfectness of human nature—the possibility—the probability—nay, the almost certainty, that the patriarch will pass into the tyrant.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne