Synonym: forthcoming, impending. Similar words: prominent, preeminently, swimming, continent, subcontinent, immigrate, immigrant, immigration. Meaning: [ɪmɪnənt] adj. close in time; about to occur.
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61, The child was in imminent danger of falling into the water.
62, Reports of negotiations have persisted since the Wall Street Journal reported last month that a buyout was imminent.
63, The implication was clear: the Fed was trying to ward off an imminent recession.
64, Some of the buildings were in a state of imminent collapse.
65, We face no imminent threat, but we do have an enemy.
66, The Darlington group also suffered from an extraordinary charge associated with the imminent sales of £2.5m.
67, So intense is the chameleon's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger.
68, Pauline Leyshon has been told her latest skin graft operation is imminent.
69, This great neoclassical house had been reprieved from imminent demolition in 1972 by ministers and taken into guardianship two years later.
70, There is no suggestion that people directly involved with Kingfisher profited from knowing that a bid was imminent.
71, He has no reason to fear the imminent collapse either of his administration or his country.
72, S G Warburg was rumoured to be pushing the stock, citing an imminent takeover.
73, The publishers wanted to deliver the books before the end of their tax year, which was imminent.
74, When I arrived squalling -- no doubt prescient about my imminent fate -- the streets were half black.
75, Most local papers are sympathetic to heritage stories and will give space to them, particularly if there is an imminent threat.
76, It is particularly disturbed by the imminent introduction of fish which have been fed with mammalian growth hormones.
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77, She could not believe that Pat was ready to go off now, at this thrilling moment when fabulous happenings seemed imminent.
78, Finally, there are the prophecies of Alexander's imminent death which were circulating weeks before his death.
79, Sterling improved strongly and the market sensed an imminent cut in interest rates which added support to the initial market euphoria.
80, Repeated scientific warnings about the imminent collapse of cod stocks were ignored and the vast shoals vanished.
81, They made love as though tomorrow was fast approaching, and with it imminent departure.
82, The vulture instinct would make him acutely observant for any signs of imminent cerebral haemorrhage in the actor.
83, Whitehall had no idea where to find the professionals who would stave off the imminent cultural vandalism of television.
84, The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent.
85, There was no need for the pebbles in the overall plan, and there was no likelihood of their imminent deployment.
86, Perhaps if I tried to offer him physical consolation for his imminent loss of Carlo?
87, Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent.
88, More often, however, they haunt that person alone and by so doing indicate some terrible tragedy is imminent.
89, A serious threat to the government's ability to prosecute the war were rumours of an imminent military coupd'etat.
90, The Chelonians, inspired by the signs of the F61's imminent departure, were struggling furiously to free themselves.
More similar words: prominent, preeminently, swimming, continent, subcontinent, immigrate, immigrant, immigration, abstinence, programming, nonentity, component, opponent, mine, commitment, examine, nominee, mineral, undermine, domineering, on end, commit, summit, entailment, entertainment, sentiment, immune, dimmer, committee, immature.