imposing

In a sentence

Six example sentences with imposing, each labelled with its topic.

• The courthouse is imposing from the square: forty steps, six columns, and a door tall enough to swallow a bus.

  Architecture

• Their new center is imposing in the tunnel alone, ducking under a doorframe that everyone else walks through upright.

  Basketball

• The cathedral looks imposing in photographs and somehow larger in person, filling the whole end of a narrow street.

  Travel

• The emperor built an imposing gateway at the edge of the city so every arriving envoy felt small before the audience began.

  History

• The bronze horseman is imposing even in a crowded square, its raised hoof level with the second-floor windows.

  Art

• The cathedral organ is imposing before a note sounds, five thousand pipes climbing the west wall in tiers.

  Music

Found in these word lists

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
• GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized

Each source is a published word list that contains imposing. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• functional
• conversely
• somewhat
• implement
• contrasting
• correspond
• reactive
• acid
• layered
• dramatically
• stereotype
• refute