The TV weather man warned that a storm, approaching from the west, was imminent.
We moved belowdecks when the storm became imminent OR The crash was imminent.
The black clouds meant that a storm was imminent
The black clouds meant that a storm was imminent.
The soapbox speaker ranted on and on about the imminent end of society as we know it.
The rattle snake stops rattling when the strike is imminent.
Imminent basically means "soon". Examples:The end of the battle is imminent.A person skating on thin ice is in imminent danger.Snow is imminent in winter's beginning.We must finish weeding in the garden quickly because a storm is imminent.
I am the overseer of your imminent death.
His decadence was imminent: he was always drunk.
imminent = about to happenBuses in a traffic circle are a certain sign of imminent danger.The rattlesnake does not always rattle when the strike is imminent.
The imminent launch of "Grammar Guru", an online and telephonic service providing instant advice on sentence structure and word choice, was announced by Mish Wandrag, an eminent language practitioner from South Africa.
Imminent is a word to describe that something is almost positively sure to occur. The reason I say almost is because the with has been used so many times like "Society is destroying our planet and we are heading for imminent doom", or "If you do that, you will be heading for imminent danger", or "An asteroid is heading our was and we are facing our imminent destruction." More correctly used should be "It could be our imminent destruction".
Extreme avoidance of situations that pose no real or imminent danger is a symptom of algophobia.