impend
Example Sentences
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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2017
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
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
During the afternoon flags were hung at half mast on the lake boats; bells were tolled, as the crowds began to gather in the dusk of the evening; some public calamity seemed to impend.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
They were his rock of refuge in any cataclysm that might impend.
From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon
Vocabulary lists containing impend
Latin Love, Vol III: pendere
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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pend, pens, List 2
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