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
Naturalists with a taste for mathematics tell us of the appalling catastrophe which would impend if every codfish were to reach maturity.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
Concealing his agitation, he began the routine of such familiar labors as impend on the eve of battle.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
