How to Use imperious in a Sentence

imperious

adjective

• The old, imperious king of the parquet, Kyrie, is gone, long live the new king, Kemba.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• The imperious Citizens flew out of the blocks and banged three goals in the first 18 minutes.
  — SI.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• The grand finale of the week was a tour of the home of Gunsite’s late founder, an imperious and erudite racist named Jeff Cooper.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• Miss Jane (Angourie Rice), the princess of the group, is imperious and judgmental.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• The more heavy-handed and imperious the top dog becomes, the stronger your rallying cry grows.
  — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Tucked in among ferns and spongy beds of moss, the pale green sculptures are imposing, even imperious.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020
• Djokovic hit back in an imperious second set and took control of the decider with a strong service game to move 4-1 up.
  — Jerome Pugmire, ajc, 6 Nov. 2021
• The address marked a shift for a man protesters have branded as out-of-touch and imperious.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• The Tiger Woods who spoke this week at The Masters seemed more nostalgic than imperious.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Set back from the road behind a low wall, the 1920s building is both stately and slightly imperious.
  — Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
• Play to the judges and run through a gamut of expressions: sultry, imperious, flirty.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Krieps plays Sisi with both imperious grandeur and a sense of humor, a fine line to walk, even on slender, regal ankles.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• Kevin De Bruyne was in imperious form yet again and was heavily involved in all three goals.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• While he’s not been able to reach his imperious best for a while, the fact Murray is still playing on the tour after all his injuries is a feat in itself.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Nobody need depend on the imperious style of, say, the nineties Martha Stewart—or on the know-how of their parents or high-school teachers, for that matter.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• In an act of imperious adolescent spite, that trombone player had opened his bottle and poured the oil on my head.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• But Djokovic looked imperious from the get-go, breaking Medvedev in his opening service game and twice holding his own with ease to race into a 3-0 lead.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 21 Feb. 2021
• Among other things, Olivia Ercolano summons the imperious nature of the Red Queen.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Clov works for Hamm (John Douglas Thompson), an imperious blind man who sits in a chair bolted to a wheeled platform—a kind of makeshift wheelchair.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The character, played by Jayne Houdyshell, was the imperious overseer of the Arconia apartment building where the show is set.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 5 July 2022
• The iconic staircase walk isn’t so much an imperious return as a dash toward old friends.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
• The message from both titans—you ain’t seen nothing yet—was imperious.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• The Americans are gone, but their imperious scars linger.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Nov. 2020
• But the 5-year-old Aurore was her grandmother’s namesake, and the imperious Madame Dupin reclaimed her.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• But, for the members of the Vienna Circle, metaphysics was a queen like Marie Antoinette—imperious, out of touch, and ripe for the guillotine.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• He was taken under the wing of the imperious king-maker, the artist manager Ronald Wilford.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Both models are all-wheel-drive and offer 536 horsepower, but which is the better fit for an imperious luxo-sedan?
  — Greg Pajo, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2023
• In the best moments, that yields inspired scenes like Russell Crowe as a portly, imperious Zeus addressing a summit of the Gods.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 July 2022
• Jones brought the towering villain Darth Vader to life with his imperious, unforgettable voice.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• Laurent is extraordinary as a queen who remains stubbornly imperious even with nothing left to lord over, her makeup growing harsher and more wraithlike as her gowns turn to drooping dust ruffles.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024