diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/senter.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/senter.pyx
index fc05c9c82..af8b2fd60 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/senter.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/senter.pyx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from itertools import islice
 
 import srsly
 from thinc.api import Model, SequenceCategoricalCrossentropy, Config
+from thinc.api import set_dropout_rate
 
 from ..tokens.doc cimport Doc