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Example sentences for "impetuous"

Lexicographically close words:
imperviousness; impetigo; impetu; impetum; impetuosity; impetuously; impetuousness; impetus; impeyan; impi
  1. Then Essex resolved upon an impetuous step characteristic of him.

  2. Probably Lord Howard took a negative attitude; he found, no doubt, a grim satisfaction in seeing the impetuous young fool, Essex, send the land force which he commanded to its inevitable destruction.

  3. He rose and pushed his heavy chair away impatiently: he was ashamed of his own words, but in the most impetuous Italian natures prudence and self-love are always the strongest instincts.

  4. Hurried, loud, impetuous steps from heavy boots fell on the old, worn, marble floor of the church, and Falko Melegari strode up behind him and laid a heavy hand upon his shoulders.

  5. Her hasty, impetuous nature seemed utterly changed; she never by any chance lost her temper now, at any provocation, especially when such came from her husband.

  6. He knew that Helen was too frank and impetuous to keep a suspicion concealed for half-an-hour; and he felt that he could rely on himself for not giving her serious cause of uneasiness.

  7. Quick and impetuous enough in temper, she was so unaccustomed to indulge any violent demonstration of feeling, that she felt somewhat ashamed of having yielded to it now.

  8. His mother's influence seems to have impressed upon him a relatively high standard of morality, though he was a man of impetuous and ardent character, turned loose in anything but a pure moral atmosphere.

  9. In him appeared some of the characteristics of his irascible and impetuous grandfather.

  10. But beneath this sensitive nature lay an energetic and even impetuous character, and an intellect singularly clear, subtle, and decisive.

  11. Admitted to her presence, he found her, as he describes the interview, looking very red, walking up and down the room with impetuous strides, in an agitation which presaged a stormy discussion.

  12. If left to a late period they retain all the impetuous ferocity of the male sex, and are scarcely governable.

  13. It was urged, and not without some reason, that his impetuous temper and strong partisanship might make him a rather domineering overseer of the diocese.

  14. Underneath all this impulsive and impetuous radicalism he was thoroughly old-fashioned and orthodox in his theology--as far from Calvinism as any Wesleyan usually is.

  15. The impetuous Lebas attempted to speak in defence of the triumvirs; he was not allowed to do so, and Billaud continued.

  16. All attempts at conciliation," said the impetuous Isnard, "will henceforth be in vain.

  17. Although the impetuous zeal of many believers caused them to expose themselves willingly in order to invoke the Blessed Virgin in the place of her apparition, nevertheless the jurisprudence of M.

  18. Moreover, should they, for any length of time, be checked in their natural expansion, this necessity grows to gigantic proportions, till it sweeps before it every obstacle like a torrent in its impetuous course.

  19. I saw that he carried a large Indian spear--which he had found at the camp where our companions had been massacred--but I had no hope of his being able to ward off the impetuous attack.

  20. Loved the eldest of the two, your father; loved as only she could love, with all the wild, impetuous passion of her nature.

  21. I knew he was thinking me a sort of impetuous infant, for insisting on asking you to come to Baba, just because you and she got on so well together.

  22. And with that remembrance, came also a sudden impetuous wish that it might be given to her to bring rest to the man who was Lady Cicely's cousin, the man whose very name she did not know.

  23. All the impulses of her impetuous character had centred on this one end of her life.

  24. Mrs. Rossall, herself a little too impetuous when triumph was no longer doubtful, made such pointed remarks on the neglect of good advice that the ire which was cooling shot forth flame in another direction.

  25. With each impetuous movement, two dark little breasts held tight by a green silk net, trembled like two ripe fruits in the wind, and their sharp, thickly painted nipples were like rubies, as they protruded from the net.

  26. With a sudden, impetuous movement he released her hand, almost flinging it from him.

  27. It was the old, impetuous Diana who spoke, impulsively carried away by the emotion of the moment.

  28. They then came back by Valencia, laid siege to its strong walls; nor could its fortifications stand before their impetuous onset.

  29. Frank hurried his steps, guessing out the situation, and anxious to rescue his impetuous friend from an outbreak.

  30. Frank rounded the brush in an impetuous and indignant way.

  31. But though impetuous in her deeds and mis-deeds, her good impulses were equally sudden, and she was always ready to apologize or make amends for her frequent naughtiness.

  32. Now with impetuous flow, now in gentler ripple, but ever onward as God hath ordained; so may our souls, when the work of life is accomplished, lose themselves in God.

  33. A great mass of them leaped from their cover, and shrilling their wild war-whistles, snapped their assegais off short, and bore down upon the handful of whites in full impetuous charge.

  34. Still he knew the other's impetuous temper, and by wearing out his patience reckoned on obtaining a sure and tolerably easy victory.

  35. I know the impetuous character that you derive from the Marechal, your father; curb it, or you are lost.

  36. Three impetuous waves of spectators rushed in and filled it in an instant.

  37. Hugh Latimer, for such was his name, combined a biting humour with an impetuous disposition and indefatigable zeal, and was very quick in ridiculing the faults of his adversaries.

  38. It was a part of her charm that her delight in life bubbled out in little spasms of laughter, in impetuous movements wholly unpremeditated.

  39. Her hand went out in an impetuous little gesture of despair.

  40. The sight of their industry incited the impetuous Sue to effort, and under the patient tutelage of Sister Martha she mastered the gentle art.

  41. Susanna followed, and as she caught up with the impetuous Sue, the front door of the house opened and a figure appeared on the threshold.

  42. He had been there in spring, when down over the rocks, now covered with lichens and dry scum, poured an impetuous torrent.

  43. It was some time before he could reply to Penn's impetuous demand--what had brought him up thither?

  44. But she was not heartless: she had a sense of justice, pride, temper, an impetuous will, not yet given over in perpetuity to the keeping of her husband.

  45. He made mistakes, and sometimes was inclined to pay too little heed to the claims of others, and not to weigh with sufficient care the force of his own impetuous words.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impetuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.