IMP in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for IMP, such as:
1. This bottle imp is being sold for entertainment purposes only.
2. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
3. So, after I had shot the imps, I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
4. He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps, and yelling.
5. The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
2. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
3. So, after I had shot the imps, I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
4. He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps, and yelling.
5. The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of IMP
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imp
n. one who is playfully mischievous
n. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
2 But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
3 'That's tellings, my blessed infant,' she retorted, tapping her nose again, screwing up her face, and twinkling her eyes like an imp of supernatural intelligence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
4 The imp is not a Huron," he said, "nor of any of the Canada tribes; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white.
5 Hold," cried Hawkeye, seizing Duncan by the arm, and detaining him by violence; "you know not the craft of the imp.
6 de Monte Cristo, King of China, Emperor of Cochin-China, said the young imp, looking slyly towards his sister.
7 The little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
8 No; it would be better to mislead the imps, and make them believe they must equal a horse's speed to run down their chase.
9 Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
10 The imps have put all their strength again at the paddles, and we are to struggle for our scalps with bits of flattened wood, instead of clouded barrels and true eyes.
11 So, after I had shot the imps, I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
12 After all, it is likely the imps would have managed to master my scalp, so a day or two will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning of time.
13 He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps, and yelling.
14 Very soon, about a dozen young imps were roosting, like so many crows, on the verandah railings, each one determined to be the first one to apprize the strange Mas'r of his ill luck.
15 But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.
Example Sentence:
1 This bottle imp is being sold for entertainment purposes only.