impend

“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

Unhappy Bourbons! a fatality seems to impend over the race; and Charles the Tenth appears doomed to die, as he has lived the greater portion of his life, in exile.

From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

The strike and the lockout become potential, but they impend as possibilities and do their work.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark

Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

And it being the middle of May mosquito season impends.

From US News ● May 13, 2016

Peril impends when a note comes announcing that her visit must be put off.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011

The East has yet to feel the full impact, but without doubt it impends.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the great Bill impends, why flee the festive scene?

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley

No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel.

From Time Magazine Archive

In another Manhattan art-huckstering shop, one more sale impended in the life of a vase once owned by Catherine the Great and later smashed by Napoleon.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

When it comes to the impending UK government decision – which sources have told BBC News should come before Christmas – there is a strange mood at Rosebank.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

She is more concerned with getting her depressed brother to come on the impending trip to Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The red, as startling as a cymbal clap, strikes the eye, but the impending drama remains out of sight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

While shop owners sandbagged the entrances to their stores and boarded up the doors and windows, there was little sense of impending disaster.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The name hung in the air like an impending storm.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan