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.
The rattle snake stops rattling when the strike is imminent.
I am the overseer of your imminent death.
The weatherman's repeated direful warnings of imminent tornados will ultimately save many lives. That was a direful weather forecast.
After months of battling cancer, her death is now imminent. When did General Lee realize that the defeat of the South was imminent? While I hate to move, my company has assured me that my transfer is imminent. The union members negotiated for hours, but the pay cuts are imminent. Believing that death was imminet, she asked for a priest to adminster the Last Rites.
We moved belowdecks when the storm became imminent OR The crash was imminent.
I am not writing a sentence using that word.
I would equate the confrontation of a snarling dog with imminent personal danger.
The root word of imminent is imminere.
The black clouds meant that a storm was imminent
The black clouds meant that a storm was 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.
a sentence using the word endotracheal