Sample sentences for IMPERATIVE

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Definition

essential and urgent

or more rarely: (in grammar) a sentence that expresses a command or request

But now, it is imperative that you understand why you cannot let Levana take you.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

In pondering how this disaster could have occurred, it is imperative to remember that lucid thought is all but impossible at 29,000 feet.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
That's what he thought of every time he left Gabby for the day, but now the notion struck him as imperative.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
No, the order is imperative.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
It was imperative that everything be relocated to a safe distance before the bio-bomb went in.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Inferior Federal Courts Imperative
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
It was imperative that the movie capture the public's imagination.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Dear Mrs. Humphrey: I write in haste, having been summoned home most urgently by a family matter which it is imperative I respond to at once.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
It was imperative I should see you this evening.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
Men stepped forth to hail cabs or cars, raising their fingers in varied forms of polite request or imperative demand.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
It is imperative: no atomic device must be detonated around the organisms.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Then came a man's voice, angry and imperative: "Open up or we'll break the door in!"
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
In other words, there is a time imperative, a sort of urgency as the sands run out.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
But it could do no good, and might make her still worse; and he saw that it was imperative to get her home at once.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
You are so impatient, sir, you would come at the infinitive mood before you can get to the imperative.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
It was imperative to find the humor again.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
According to William P. Foley II, the chairman of the company that owns Carl's Jr., the basic imperative of today's fast food industry is "Grow or die."
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
But when Adam had made up his mind to a measure, he was not the man to renounce it for any but imperative reasons.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
It was imperative to be as close as possible to put in motion the strategy that was rapidly coming into focus.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Imperative mood, present tense: Do not thou go home, let him not go home, let us not go home, do not ye or you go home, let not them go home.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

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