imperially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Securing the dynasty’s rule required replacing local military leaders with imperially appointed mandarins, civilian government officials who could advise and, when necessary, restrain the generals on matters of foreign policy.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It would also prove an enormously elusive style of thinking, making it difficult to distinguish between the banal and the brilliant, between the imperially helpful and the imperially devastating.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2018
They are also another excuse to revisit historic Britain at its most jolly decent and imperially mighty, which never hurts.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2017
Life is that which — pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially — interrupts.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
Patriots have sometimes been asked to "think imperially."
From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Evelyn Underhill
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