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Example sentences for "imprudently"

Lexicographically close words:
improvising; improviso; improvized; imprudence; imprudent; imps; impudence; impudent; impudently; impugn
  1. Having imprudently stretched herself in the armchair for a moment's rest, she there fell soundly asleep, her pretty head sinking on one of her shoulders amidst her lovely, wavy fair hair, which was all in disorder.

  2. Induced by the hope of reconciling the opposing parties, he left his army in Namur, and imprudently ventured into the power of General Schoenfeld, who commanded the troops of the states.

  3. The duke of Arschot vainly attempted to oppose his authority to that of these men; and he on one occasion imprudently exclaimed that "he would have them hanged, even though they were protected by the Prince of Orange himself.

  4. Those who are thus imprudently cast into the streets yield a harvest of brigandage--that frightful harvest of evil which makes all society totter.

  5. Besides, on the previous day Maurice, bareheaded and in perspiration, had imprudently lingered in a draught in one of the sheds while a machine was being tested.

  6. Footnote 26: The desire of comparing two great men has tempted many writers to drown Frederic in the River Cydnus, in which Alexander so imprudently bathed, (Q.

  7. The King and Queen imprudently agreed to visit the scene of festivity, carrying with them the Dauphin.

  8. Roland acted very imprudently in examining the contents of the chest alone, and without witness, instead of calling in the commissioners aforesaid, who were in the palace at the time.

  9. It had been imprudently increased by new creations.

  10. He was called to stand on his defence, and imprudently laid before the Assembly his correspondence with Kaunitz, the Austrian minister.

  11. The saint once mistook (as Don Quixote might have done) a harmless funeral for an idolatrous procession, and imprudently committed a miracle.

  12. Valentinian, who supposed that every human breast was devoid, like his own, of friendship and gratitude, had imprudently admitted among his guards several domestics and followers of Aetius.

  13. All at once it flashed upon my mind that I had been imprudently confiding in my disclosures to Lucretia.

  14. I lifted up my bag of silver, which lay on the seat beside me, and imprudently opened it to take out a few dollars full in sight of my enchanting neighbour.

  15. Resuming the thread of his discourse, he imprudently let out the fact that during the last few days he had presented a petition--to what tribunal he did not say--for the suppression of my piece.

  16. I really never did see a man that seemed to me less likely to fall in love imprudently than this Mr. St. Leger.

  17. They imprudently disobeyed this last injunction, and neglected to bury him where he had appointed.

  18. Maston, who had very imprudently kept to the fore, was thrown twenty yards backwards like a bullet over the heads of his fellow-citizens.

  19. The unfortunate fellow, leaning imprudently over the metal tube, had disappeared down the immense telescope--a fall of 280 feet!

  20. I imprudently objected to the date, and he revenged himself for the injury done to his fame by the favourite ecclesiastical process of privily damning me for a heretic, and a worse than heathen.

  21. Long Guled had imprudently lent his dagger to the smooth-tongued Yusuf Dera, who hearing of the departure, naturally absconded.

  22. Since James was gone, what need to press imprudently to new arrangements?

  23. Dry cut resolutions, imprudently adopted, and pressed upon unwilling populations would have ninety-nine chances out of a hundred to be more injurious than profitable.

  24. Weseloff, giving way to the natural impulses of his filial affection, had imprudently posted through Russia, to his mother's house without warning of his approach.

  25. I imprudently left my keg of specimen-spirits on board this ignoble craft, and the consequence was that it speedily became bone-dry.

  26. But it imprudently reduced its other forces, so that Marcellus was left to face Hannibal with an inadequate army.

  27. So impatient was Darius to attack Alexander that he imprudently advanced into Cilicia by the northern pass, now called Beylan, with all his army, so that in the narrow defiles of that country his cavalry was nearly useless.

  28. He imprudently puts himself into the power of the young man and his older associate.

  29. The brother, on his arrival in England, had imprudently placed himself in the power of Latimer and of his associate, whose name was Wilson Kemp--a man of the foulest antecedents.

  30. He acknowledged, too late, that he had imprudently entered into war, and committed a great fault in having commenced it with forces too few in number and too wildly scattered.

  31. His addresses to me were countenanced by my deceased parent; imprudently countenanced perhaps, considering the prejudices of my father, in favour of birth and rank.

  32. A respectable farmer happened to be the next passenger, and seeing the bonnet, alighted, took it up, and rather imprudently put it on his own head.

  33. The king's reluctance to yield to the Roman Catholic claims was underestimated by Pitt, while Cornwallis imprudently permitted himself to use language which, though not amounting to a pledge, was construed as one.

  34. In consequence of the breakdown of some of his guns he imprudently halted at Turnham Green.


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