Example Sentences

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After looking around for only 20 minutes, Ron impetuously bought the place.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2019

“Science without communication is nothing,” Crowther says impetuously.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2019

Lawyers for Valencia tried to paint the defendant as a wildlife enthusiast who impetuously purchased the wild cat with the intention of making it a pet.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2018

To solve her cases — cold and warm-blooded — Karen impetuously travels to London by night train and prowls the posher sections of that city trawling for clues.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2016

“Stop!” she cried, “don’t sing that. I don’t want you to sing it,” and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin