Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an imposing manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an imposing manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
imposing manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an impressive manner
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Examples
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Our test product thus far had been Mr. Limpy, an imposingly large rubber phallus, the sort of gag gift you buy for a bachelorette party (or God knows what), and it had worked astonishingly well so far.
Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously Antonio Garcia-Martinez 2010
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However, even the editors are just the stand-ins for the most imposingly intermediate of middlemen, the publishers themselves.
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The ceilings are wood timbered and the carved wooden doors that connect the passageways are imposingly large.
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The ceilings are wood timbered and the carved wooden doors that connect the passageways are imposingly large.
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The Bernabéu stands imposingly alongside businesses on the Paseo de la Castellana, the Calderón is locked in by the grubby M30 motorway, which runs right under the stand.
Atlético Madrid can put end to glory of suffering in Liverpool semi 2010
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He loomed imposingly, singing in a high, true voice of exodus and the Jews '"3,000 years with no place to be".
Matisyahu 2010
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Graham's great harmonious canvas "Somewhere Jerusalem" (1996 oil and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 140 inches), pictured above and hanging imposingly in Rutberg's front room, "comes from a topographical map."
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It took some time—and a surprising amount of effort—but Maddy finally tore her gaze away from the imposingly tall, impeccably groomed, sexy hunk laughing at something Hiram had said.
Dragon Warrior Janet Chapman 2010
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My first notion of the poor in other countries was when the nuns, dressed imposingly in black tunics covered with pulverized chalk, prevailed upon us to put our milk money into an empty can of Crisco marked in crayon, "For Pagan Babies."
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Graham's great harmonious canvas "Somewhere Jerusalem" (1996 oil and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 140 inches), pictured above and hanging imposingly in Rutberg's front room, "comes from a topographical map."
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