How to Use incipient in a Sentence

incipient

adjective

• The project is still in its incipient stages.
• I have an incipient dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning.
• Min has an incipient romance with her, and hopes to marry her.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Wu Zhongze laid out the high stakes of the incipient metaverse.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2021
• Nor does the job market show signs of an incipient robopocalypse.
  — James Surowiecki, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2017
• What do incipient organs, traffic jams and the frothy head of foam at the top of a beer glass have in common?
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
• How does the incipient streaming war play out over the next several months?
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
• Mostly green and in the incipient stage, this year's bloom is expected to look less vibrant.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
• These extra calories can make all the difference to an incipient fire ant colony.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• If the incipient boom is to produce better results, governments and firms must learn to adopt best practice from around the world.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• One incipient fantasy, arising at lunchtime in a restaurant, is smothered by the sight of a young male colleague.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Has a high-profile, incipient Hall of Famer ever switched numbers like that?
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• That gets to the heart of the incipient independence movement.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• The incipient race to Mars will include companies as well as countries.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• No one has taught him how to manage his incipient sexuality; no one has taught him how to cope with rejection.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
• Rotary motion in a thunderstorm may be a sign of an incipient tornado or one that is forming.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• In China the market is relatively tiny, but there are signs of an incipient boom.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• But the novel and movie stirred the wrath of the incipient Austrian Nazi movement.
  — Jonathan Bate, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2022
• Local reporters picked up on the incipient effort, finding Waters to be both likable and quotable.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2020
• While still in its incipient stages, working with AI will also become more important over the years.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• Yet these are only incipient, and are not proceeding anywhere near the requisite scale and the requisite speed.
  — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 5 June 2022
• Still, along with the inevitable sense of incipient loss, a kind of pre-mourning, the run-up to the finale of any major show can trigger waves of anxiety, even dread among fans.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is also home to Strike Oil, an incipient street wear line overseen by Nats and featuring her artwork.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2018
• Yet the afternoon seemed aglow with sunshine enough to keep all but the most committed Cassandras from feeling any incipient chill.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
• But the actor brilliantly delivers an incipient-breakdown monologue in the first act, then in the final scene comes across as a man propelled toward change by tragedy.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
• To her credit, Shannon shakes off the incipient paranoia and goes hard into the giggles at anything and everyone at the table.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
• In short, an incipient hybrid species, which the researchers dubbed the Big Bird lineage, had emerged within two generations.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Soon, Caserta was something of an unofficial clothier to the freaks and runaways and incipient rock stars who had begun to populate the area.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
• Cummings and Croft could be seen as incipient postwar American Fascists, highbrow and lowbrow, but both of them wind up stymied.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• The United States has struggled against its incipient hates and even appeared, with the election of Barack Obama, to be able to put them aside.
  — Llewellyn King, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017