IMPUTE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for IMPUTE, such as:

1. It could only be imputed to increasing attachment.
2. They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.
3. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.
4. It seemed unfair to impute the accident on me, especially since they were the ones who ran the red light.
5. I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPUTE
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impute
 v.  lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
2  Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
3  "God's will be done," said Cedric, in a voice tremulous with passion, which Front-de-Boeuf imputed to fear.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca's nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  The inattention of the two brothers and the aunt to Julia's discomposure, and their blindness to its true cause, must be imputed to the fullness of their own minds.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Something arose from difference of disposition and habit: one so easily satisfied, the other so unused to endure; but still more might be imputed to difference of circumstances.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  It could only be imputed to increasing attachment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  They had nothing to accuse him of but pride; pride he probably had, and if not, it would certainly be imputed by the inhabitants of a small market-town where the family did not visit.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
11  He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
12  ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
13  "Crimes are imputed to you which had brought down far loftier heads than yours, monsieur," said the cardinal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 67 CONCLUSION
14  For common punishments are not imputed to the prince, but to the laws and ordinances which he has to administer.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
15  For as men judge of things by their results, any evil which ensues from such measures will be imputed to their author.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
Example Sentence:
1  It seemed unfair to impute the accident on me, especially since they were the ones who ran the red light.
2  They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.