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