How to Use impetuous in a Sentence

impetuous

adjective
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  • He's always been an impetuous young man.
  • The way in which the agreement came about seemed impetuous.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Some members of your household might be in the mood for impetuous fun.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Be on your guard about impetuous spending sprees and salespeople who try to persuade you.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
  • Williams was an impetuous teenager; his parents bought him a mountain bike to try to keep him out of trouble.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The cause of this disaster: an impetuous rush to innovate.
    — Christopher Hartnick, STAT, 7 June 2018
  • As its impetuous behavior makes clear, the group thinks and acts exclusively in the short term.
    — Ali Soufan, Newsweek, 19 June 2017
  • The baron was an old man and barely able to defend himself against the young and impetuous Guise, who killed the baron with a single thrust.
    — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • These eager young players were at their impetuous best during the frenetic episodes of the last movement.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 23 July 2017
  • But the court is also where the impetuous teen gets into a tiff with a local gangster, with whom Will ends up in jail overnight.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
  • And like an impetuous first-time driver, Bam might have overstepped his bounds.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The second thread explores their impetuous teenage romance.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2017
  • There’s the impetuous studio boss who wants to hand the project over to another director who hacks away pages of dialogue.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Others decided, in a more impetuous fashion, to go all-in on this season.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
  • To his critics this was the kind of idea that underlined just how ignorant and impetuous the President was.
    — Peter Bergen, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Your impetuous classmates could complicate the task of first responders.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • At work, his firings were almost as impetuous as his hirings, and his employees describe him as an ogre and a tyrant.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Bruno is a youthful and impetuous man with a salesman’s bluster and a high-end decorator’s taste.
    — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Coaches and teammates loved his spunk and come-at-me demeanor, but that impetuous nature often caused more harm than good.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • By moving the count out of public view, Leahy had made an impetuous but catastrophic mistake.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • At one point, there was also a late-night scramble to stop the impetuous Mr. Trump from wreaking havoc in a key state.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And that assessment doesn’t begin to evaluate the merit of his many impetuous decisions.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
  • Moral of the story: Don’t be a bunch of impatient, impetuous knee-jerks who call for their coach to be fired at the first sign of adversity.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The characters all hew to the archetypes Martin originally set forth, in that Kristy is bossy and sometimes impetuous.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • Callous, impetuous Logan is suddenly the lone voice of reason.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • For the first time ever, my love for and past experiences with travel had led me down the wrong path, one littered with impetuous and expensive missteps.
    — Jess Lander, SFChronicle.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • And That Trumps impetuous diplomacy and experience of course, are at fault.
    — Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • Before the jury, Spiro’s core argument was that an impetuous tweet shouldn’t get someone sued.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • See that someone has mocked you, respond with an impetuous burst of anger engineered to attract attention and rile up and delight your followers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But in private, both their impetuous backstabbing and their haunting loneliness are near-constant reminders that the scaffolding of their union is a lie.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Nov. 2022

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