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

One speaks upon occasion, giving him warning when grave troubles impend.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

I am strengthened by the very dangers by which we are surrounded; nor would my hope be shaken even if storms should impend.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by