imperious

Example Sentences

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Bent on surviving the trip, she decides early to bury her feelings in an impenetrable “garb of stone” and to fashion for herself an imperious personality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The Scots landed seven scores and a half century of points against the previously imperious but now seriously beleaguered French.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

But satisfaction isn’t in the cards for this general’s daughter, famed for her beauty and imperious style.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

And so the imperious patriarch, Whitelaw Redfellow—played by a shadowy, barely seen figure who is only toward the end revealed to be Ed Harris—casts her out of the family estate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious, revealing latent energy and an intellectual force that could be felt at once.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie