impend

Example Sentences

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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2017

An international incident seemed to impend when the Rumanian ghouls incautiously admitted that they had pulled the corpse this way and that, in an effort to find contraband goods in the coffin.

From Time Magazine Archive

But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Two high cliffs near it impend over the sea, which are commonly called the Heads of Ayr, and not far from these stands a fragment of an ancient castle.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

We seriously consider the dreadful judgments that now impend the nation.”—Penn.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.