PEREMPTORY in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for PEREMPTORY, such as:
1. He was quite peremptory, both in look and voice.
2. His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
3. Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.
4. An officer's peremptory tenor rang out and quickened the stiffened movement of the men.
5. From Jack's peremptory knock on the door, Jill could tell he would not give up until she let him in.
2. His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.
3. Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.
4. An officer's peremptory tenor rang out and quickened the stiffened movement of the men.
5. From Jack's peremptory knock on the door, Jill could tell he would not give up until she let him in.
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Meanings and Examples of PEREMPTORY
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peremptory
a. offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal
Classic Sentence:
1 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
2 His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.
3 However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
4 Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.
5 Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones.
6 He was quite peremptory, both in look and voice.
7 No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.
8 Scarlett submitted meekly to being carried toward the carriage and also to the peremptory manner in which Uncle Peter criticized her and Prissy.
9 An officer's peremptory tenor rang out and quickened the stiffened movement of the men.
10 Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11 When, awakened from his sleep, he received that cold, peremptory note from Kutuzov, he felt the more irritated the more he felt himself to blame.
12 He hesitated and grew pale with anger, called the usher and gave him his card, with a few peremptory words, and slowly sat down.
Example Sentence:
1 From Jack's peremptory knock on the door, Jill could tell he would not give up until she let him in.
2 The defence team deployed peremptory challenges, which can be used by both sides for purely strategic reasons with no imperative to justify their use, to nix Indigenous people from being considered as jurors.
3 His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.