Puzzled by this imperative command from Nicki, Whitney went down the hall to her uncle's study.

TECO does not really have syntax; each character in a program is an imperative command, dispatched to its corresponding routine.

-Come- The word was an imperative command.

He waited, attentive; recognizing as a dog would do the note of imperative command.

It was in the nature of an imperative command, which he could not refuse to obey.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it.

It began to work out a basic vocabulary, at least of imperative commands.

They programmed themselves with this imperative command after the first ones decided on their own to make every biological intelligence go to ground.

The word waste in this context is both an imperative command and an adjective.

It is in this responsible way that we use the word "waste" as an imperative command.