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Six example sentences with imperious, each labelled with its topic.
The new head chef was so imperious that line cooks stopped asking questions and simply braced for the next order.
Cooking
The gallery owner's imperious manner drove away two young painters who had queued since dawn for a five-minute meeting.
Art
The mayor's imperious tone at the hearing annoyed council members who had every right to question the budget.
Politics
The founder's imperious emails, all capital letters and no greeting, drove three senior engineers to resign in one month.
Business
The imperious conductor stopped the rehearsal to lecture the oboist in front of ninety colleagues over a single late entry.
Music
The imperious governor overruled the elected assembly on every vote, and the colony's petitions to London went unanswered.
History
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