Examples of imposition in a Sentence
Your kids can stay with me the night you're away—it's really not an imposition.
the imposition of a life sentence on the defendant
the imposition of a tax on liquor
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Literary approaches to genre study often treat genres as either exclusively aesthetic objects or impositions on artistic freedom.
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Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis said that for the EU, an end to the crisis would mean a return to free navigation without the imposition of any tolls through the Strait of Hormuz, from which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes.
—Menelaos Hadjicostis, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Peter might be matured, and humanized, by the imposition of fatherhood, but the movie doesn’t attach exactly the same moral weight to that shift as do movies like Raising Helen and Big Daddy, or the sneakily conservative urgings of some of Judd Apatow’s films.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
The federal government on Wednesday announced the imposition of a six-month nationwide freeze on new hospice and home health providers under Medicare as part of a sweeping crackdown on fraud.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
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Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis said that for the EU, an end to the crisis would mean a return to free navigation without the imposition of any tolls through the Strait of Hormuz, from which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes.
—Menelaos Hadjicostis, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Peter might be matured, and humanized, by the imposition of fatherhood, but the movie doesn’t attach exactly the same moral weight to that shift as do movies like Raising Helen and Big Daddy, or the sneakily conservative urgings of some of Judd Apatow’s films.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
The federal government on Wednesday announced the imposition of a six-month nationwide freeze on new hospice and home health providers under Medicare as part of a sweeping crackdown on fraud.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
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“Imposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imposition. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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imposition
noun
im·po·si·tion
ˌim-pə-ˈzish-ən 
1
: the act of imposing
2
a
: something (as a tax) that is imposed
b
: a demand or request that is very troublesome
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