IMPOSING


Meaning of IMPOSING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an impressive/imposing building

the impressive buildings around the town’s central square

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

building

Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building .

She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time.

However, another whisky warehouse went up, illuminating beautifully the imposing building that is Donaldson's.

By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings .

These imposing buildings from another era were the meeting point for elements that the establishment wanted to keep apart.

The manor house is Alford's most imposing building .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

An imposing staircase led out of the hall.

It's one of the most distinguished hotels in Italy, grand and imposing .

The show took place outside the imposing Central Library building on Fifth Avenue.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A major problem with imposing restrictions of this kind is that banks may find ways of getting round them.

Over six feet tall, and square-shouldered, Marcus Judge was still an imposing character.

Pergamon was an imposing hillside city and full advantage was taken of this dramatic site.

She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.

The fingerboard is rosewood with the somewhat imposing lightning bolt inlays which share the blue livery chosen for this particular model.

The railway crossing was protected by imposing level crossing gates where it crossed the tram line.

The site is distinguished by an imposing pair of gates, there is the station building itself and the mill.

With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré, and rang the bell.

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