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Example sentences for "incipient"

Lexicographically close words:
incidit; incinerated; incineration; incinerator; incipiency; incipiunt; incise; incised; incising; incision
  1. Philip had not so much faith as Harry in Stone's Landing, when the latter opened the project to him, but Harry talked about it as if he already owned that incipient city.

  2. It is an irritation of the integument in the cleft of the foot, slightly resembling incipient hoof-ail, and producing lameness.

  3. If taken in its incipient stage, a mere change to a more binding diet, as corn, flour, etc.

  4. For the disease in its incipient state, the fowl should be kept warm, and treated with repeated doses of hippo-powder and sulphur, mixed with butter, with the addition of a small quantity of Cayenne pepper.

  5. Such an affront must not be tolerated for a moment; so he determined to organise an expedition which should explore the hills and root out any incipient rebellion which might be afoot.

  6. De Montfort also feared the effect this thing would have upon William, if once he learnt that his subject was conniving at an incipient rebellion, which might ultimately threaten the peace of the kingdom.

  7. So ends, abruptly as is usual, and enigmatically, this little incipient romance.

  8. Accordingly, if we scrutinise these Pilgrimings well, there is perhaps discernible henceforth a certain incipient method in their madness.

  9. Now it has long been thought more or less probable that these marginal bodies are rudimentary or incipient "eyes," but hitherto the supposition has not been tested by experiment, and was therefore of no more value than a guess.

  10. In either case, when the bout of strong contractions sets in, the rate of the rhythm becomes progressively and rapidly increased, until it runs up into incipient tetanus.

  11. The incipient stages of many diseases were plainly apparent among them.

  12. There had arisen in Sue's face that incipient fright which showed itself whenever he changed from friend to husband, and which made her adopt any line of defence against marital feeling in him.

  13. An indescribable lightness of heel served to lift him along; and Jude, the incipient scholar, prospective D.

  14. The river lay almost absolutely still, only barred here and there with long streaks of ripple that betokened an incipient breeze.

  15. They were dressed in red, with abundance of cumbrous silver ornaments, and dirty leggings; one was additionally ornamented with incipient goitre.

  16. The new Pillo is a dark low-looking man, with an incipient goitre, the old one a more decent aristocratic looking person, good-looking and very fair.

  17. But in the irritation of the moment, and prompted possibly by some incipient jealousy, Faith pushed Lois away so violently that the latter was hurt against the hard, sharp corner of the wooden settle.

  18. Kindly be as brief as possible," his "incipient Bolshevism" manifesting itself in his manner.

  19. Huber has found incipient colonies, in which were only a few workers engaged with their mother in the care of a small number of larvae; and M.

  20. It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species attain the rank of species.

  21. A well-marked variety may therefore be called an incipient species; but whether this belief is justifiable must be judged by the weight of the various facts and considerations to be given throughout this work.

  22. Nevertheless according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species.

  23. The lower part of the pistil or female organ of the flower, containing the ovules or incipient seeds; by growth after the other organs of the flower have fallen, it usually becomes converted into the fruit.

  24. It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious.

  25. The one new point which appears to have struck many readers is, "That natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures.

  26. The people, glad to be delivered from so heavy a yoke, obeyed with joy the incipient rule of the Queen-Regent.

  27. We cannot be too bold, for we are ever at the incipient point of some new manifestation far more overwhelming than all our dreams.

  28. Nothing else in England betrays so well the curious individuality, the fascinating tendency to incipient eccentricity, which marks the English genius.

  29. On the walls were innumerable flashlight photographs of famous suppers, suppers that had reduced potential judges and incipient statesmen to helpless imbecility.

  30. Graves was a thin, pale-faced young man with nondescript features and an incipient moustache.

  31. In this place, the incipient hernia or bubonocele, covered by its sac, lies on the forepart of the spermatic vessels, and becomes invested by those same coverings which constitute the inguinal canal, through which these vessels pass.

  32. The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Reaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

  33. For instance, incipient schizophrenia, I think she used; potentially dangerous is something which I use.

  34. On the other side, sorrow for the lack of some form of goodness is itself a proof of the partial possession, in some rudimentary and incipient form, of that goodness.

  35. To bare our inmost selves before Him, and not to shrink, even if that piercing gaze lights on hidden meannesses and incipient treachery, may be painful, but is healing.

  36. Under the one lies an incipient love to Him; under the other, a covert and perhaps scarcely conscious opposition.

  37. She must not shrink from the touch of the cold clay nor the odour of incipient corruption, but lip to lip and heart to heart must lay herself upon the dead and he will live.

  38. Betty the housemaid, who had followed Dick for a bit of gossip and a sort of incipient liking which had not yet issued on his part into any overt acts of courtship and declaration.

  39. The dumb menial that stood before her was obviously incapable even of this act of incipient speech.

  40. The kind mistress ascended with the assistance of my arm, and St. John drew stoutly between Miss Temple and a fat young lady with an incipient asthma.

  41. It would not be easy to portray to the reader all the delight which these specks of incipient verdure conveyed to the mind of Mark Woolston.

  42. Having sponged every Blot from the Escutcheon and laid out the Labels for all Generations yet unborn, the incipient Benedick thought there would be nothing more to it except Holding Hands and watching the Calendar.

  43. Soon after recovering from the Pip, known in Medical Parlance as the Spooney Infantum, he began to glory in the friendship of an incipient Amazon who wore a Blazer and walked like a Policeman.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incipient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboriginal; autochthonous; beginning; budding; creation; dumpy; dwarf; dwarfed; elemental; elementary; elfin; embryonic; fetal; formative; fundamental; inaugural; inceptive; inchoate; incipient; infant; infantile; initial; initiative; initiatory; introductory; inventive; meager; midget; nascent; original; parturient; pregnant; prenatal; primal; primary; prime; primeval; primitive; procreative; prospective; pygmy; rudimentary; runty; scraggy; scrubby; seminal; shriveled; shrunken; squat; stunted; undersized; undeveloped; wizened