immanent

Example Sentences

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Many live together in agricultural cooperatives, where they prepare for the immanent apocalypse that, they believe, will restore the communal agrarian society of the Inca empire.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2020

In the summer of 1914, each of the great powers reached the conclusion that war was inevitable, and that trying to stay out of the immanent conflict would lead to national decline.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

In later works, light is more complex, more immanent to the scene.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2019

As much as I liked the show, none of the music was as intense as the immanent proof of so many people around me being present for the same thing at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2015

The eminent Archbishop Latour, knowing that his death was imminent, felt God was immanent.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner