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Example sentences for "immediate"

Lexicographically close words:
immature; immaturity; immeasurable; immeasurably; immediacy; immediatelie; immediately; immediateness; immediatlie; immediatly
  1. Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a cloud seemed to have rolled duskily from beneath the black crape, and dimmed the light of the candles.

  2. Mr. Pulitzer will be aboard again in two hours and will expect everything to be ready to make an immediate start.

  3. Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes, conflicting errors, scepticism on points the most clear, dogmatism on points the most mysterious.

  4. I was out seeing that our Headquarter horses were being groomed and fed and got ready for immediate action.

  5. There was a certain post, Doleful Post, very valuable to the Boche because it dominated the immediate neighbourhood.

  6. The colonel told Captain Drysdale to inform the Infantry brigadier what had happened, and to obtain his immediate permission to go to the battery, about half a mile away.

  7. There was to be a big attack on our immediate front.

  8. In two minutes he had spoken to the Infantry brigadier, and asked whether immediate assistance could not be sent.

  9. Each carried his gun poised low, in readiness for immediate action; and each placed his hand upon his knife, for the conflict—man to man.

  10. Such was the purport of the communication of the fruit-seller, translated by Chiniah after his own fashion, and the import of which so fully aroused our curiosity as to determine us to attempt an immediate ascent of the hill.

  11. Edgar grasped his rifle and knife with a fierce energy, which threatened the suicide of an immediate attack.

  12. His immediate object was to discover the Indians’ horses, and thus preclude the carrying off of their prisoner by a portion of the savages, during his fight with the remainder.

  13. This latter confidential communication had an immediate result.

  14. Buckingham, in so violent a manner that those who were present drew back, expecting an immediate collision.

  15. I would have waited in order to receive any directions he might have to give me, if the desire for my immediate departure had not been intimated to me by M.

  16. Grisart hesitated, whether he should give him immediate assistance, or should run to prepare the cordial he had promised.

  17. Not even he suspected the immediate relations of Laflamme and Carbourd; nor that Laflamme was preparing for escape.

  18. We had been saved from immediate destruction, but it certainly seemed like exchanging Tophet for a slow fire.

  19. Considerable heat is disengaged when alcohol and water are brought together; if, however, ice be substituted for water, heat is absorbed, owing to the immediate and rapid conversion of the ice into the liquid state.

  20. With these lures the porpoise is often brought into the immediate vicinity of the harpoon, which is invariably thrown with fatal precision.

  21. It is pleasantly located, amid a cluster of rude cabins, on the margin of the St. John, and in the immediate vicinity of a race course.

  22. When I tell my readers that this spot is only about one hundred miles from New York, they will be surprised to learn that in its immediate vicinity we saw no less than two bears, one doe with two fawns, and other valuable game.

  23. The thunder bellowed as if in the enjoyment of a very happy frolic, and the lightning seemed determined to root up a few trees in our immediate vicinity, as if for the purpose of giving us more room.

  24. The valley of this portion of the river is mountainous, and its immediate banks vary from fifteen to thirty feet in height.

  25. The iron works alluded to above, are located in a narrow valley, and in the immediate vicinity of Lake Henderson, at a place called McIntyre.

  26. The principal attraction at the Forks is a capital tavern, kept by one Burnham, who is a capital fellow to guide the lover of Nature, or the trout fisherman, to Moxy Fall or Nameless Lake, which are in the immediate vicinity.

  27. Such pronouncements proved at least that a poet, who had no friend save such as his published poems gained for him, could count on an immediate recognition for high merit.

  28. And while most poets of his quality have usually to wait a quarter of a century or more for adequate recognition, this poet is pretty sure of a wide and immediate acknowledgement.

  29. Illustration] Appreciations of Francis Thompson "Such pronouncements proved at least that a poet, who had no friend save such as his published poems gained for him, could count on an immediate recognition for high merit.

  30. Her ingenuitics of the defence eluded his attacks, and compelled him to fall on heavy iteration of his demand for the jewels, an immediate restitution of the jewels.

  31. Pursuit was one of the immediate ideas which rush forward to look back woefully on impediments and fret to fever over the tardiness of operations.

  32. It had not seemed to him that Lord Ormont was one requiring the immediate attendance of a physician.

  33. The immediate success of the enterprise, the popular distinction acquired by some of the leaders, the high honor bestowed on one of its heroes, all this makes the lesson of injustice attractive.

  34. So we want direct and immediate action upon the people themselves.

  35. The immediate triumph of this new party is not to be looked for; not desirable.

  36. Measure his greatness by his service; but that is not to be measured by immediate and apparent success.

  37. Pine Hollow About a mile east of Kings Corners, almost opposite a rural school and cemetery, the buildings of a farmstead appear to hug a fringe of wood, high bluffs forming the sky line in the immediate background of the picture.

  38. In the ardour of their pursuit, over a country possessing many difficulties, the immediate commands of Colonel Dodge and Colonel Ewing had outstripped the rest of General Henry's brigade.

  39. Pierre Dargental's murderer desires an immediate interview with the magistrate.

  40. So the three boys started to comb the immediate vicinity of the shack, spreading out in something like a fan formation.

  41. When the little motor got to work there was an immediate movement of the rough miniature monoplane.

  42. To believe is in this case to feel an immediate impression of the senses, or a repetition of that impression in the memory.

  43. We shadow out the objects of our faith, say they, in sensible types and images, and render them more present to us by the immediate presence of these types, than it is possible for us to do, merely by an intellectual view and contemplation.

  44. The pain, which we receive from its tendency to the prejudice of society, is over-powered by a stronger and more immediate sympathy.

  45. This must evidently proceed from an immediate sympathy, which men have with characters similar to their own.

  46. In order to take his mind from thoughts of his thirst and of the immediate future, he rapidly circled the island.

  47. He became aware of an immediate sense of relief; in an unbelievably short time the fever had left him and he was himself again.

  48. There was no immediate danger from the two remaining Venerians, for they were up in the tower, while the sphere was in the meteor; so he could think with utmost safety.

  49. Lady Marabout, determining to beat an immediate retreat from the present salons, since they were infested by the presence of her Ogre, to Lady Hautton's house in Wilton Crescent.

  50. Tatters," was the immediate and scornful reply; "you know mighty well what made him drop that other time.

  51. In case of trouble they wanted to be in condition for active and immediate work.

  52. As a result of their labours, and the labours of their immediate successors, Bath renewed her youth in a revived Classicism.

  53. Discoveries at Bath and in its immediate neighbourhood have proved that there was a sanatorium for invalided officers on Combe Down, and we can well imagine such being conveyed hither, to recover or to die, along the road.

  54. But a strange incident now happened to him which deranged all his immediate plans.

  55. It was all, clearly, a wondrous show for him, but his immediate surprise, oddly, might have been greatest for that.

  56. But he is not immediate in the true sense; he is abrupt, and this too frequently for his own sly purposes--which have nothing to do with either technique or the short-story.

  57. It was only the other day that Mr. Kipling gave us his Just-so Stories, and his Jungle-Book, each of which found an immediate and secure place in the popular memory.

  58. It should also be tossed over or turned, and lightened up daily for the same purpose, until a sufficiency is gathered together for immediate use.

  59. The above cave is but a sample of many in the immediate neighbourhood of Paris.

  60. This had become my affair; and the necessity of coming to an immediate decision almost deprived me of my power of thinking.

  61. Would he have the courage to explore at least the immediate neighbourhood of the opening?

  62. I said, rather off-handedly, "Why, the two men I killed ought to be credentials enough for all immediate purposes!

  63. It, at least, answered our immediate need for concealment, and this was enough for me, when all our future hung upon every passing minute.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immediate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessible; actual; adjacent; adjoining; alert; approaching; apt; attendant; available; being; bordering; brewing; ceaseless; close; coming; connected; connecting; constant; contemporaneous; contemporary; conterminous; contiguous; continual; continuing; continuous; convenient; coterminous; current; cursory; cyclic; cyclical; decisive; direct; endless; endways; existent; existing; expeditious; express; extant; featureless; feverish; firsthand; flying; forthcoming; fresh; furious; future; hasty; hurried; immanent; immediate; imminent; impending; impulsive; incessant; indwelling; inherent; instant; instantaneous; instinctive; interminable; intuitive; irreversible; joined; juxtaposed; latest; linked; looming; lowering; lurking; menacing; modern; momentary; monotonous; near; nearby; nearing; neighbor; neighboring; new; next; nigh; overhanging; passing; perennial; periodic; present; presto; primary; prompt; proximate; punctual; quick; rapid; ready; recurrent; repetitive; running; seamless; serried; smooth; snap; speedy; spontaneous; stable; steady; straight; straightaway; straightforward; sudden; summary; superficial; swift; threatening; topical; unbroken; unceasing; undeviating; undifferentiated; unending; unhesitating; unidirectional; uniform; unintermittent; uninterrupted; unrelieved; unremitting; unstopped; unswerving; upcoming; urgent; waiting


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    immediate abolition; immediate action; immediate answer; immediate attack; immediate command; immediate danger; immediate dissolution; immediate emancipation; immediate experience; immediate intuition; immediate knowledge; immediate reply; immediately after; immediately afterwards; immediately began; immediately below; immediately followed; immediately opposite; immediately ordered; immediately sent; immediately went