impend

“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

They were his rock of refuge in any cataclysm that might impend.

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

For in the day fences are about us, roofs and towers impend above our heads, we are cribbed in streets and markets, the din of rhetoric or sordid bargaining fills our ears.

From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton

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

Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe which impends?

From Time Magazine Archive

I am going home to-morrow," said he, "and therefore am not likely to be one of the unfortunates over whom a mysterious but melancholy fate impends.

From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Charles W. Hall

Talks important to Britain impended with the arrival of U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other German defeats in other areas impended: > At Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop.

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

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

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

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

For the last few weeks, the Rams have practiced in the late afternoon, which aligns body clock-wise with their impending morning kickoff in Melbourne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, John, David, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the newest drama enveloping semi-royals Prince Harry and Meghan after they announced an impending move back to the UK.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

Oura gathers a range of health data including heart rate and sleep patterns and uses them to develop predictions and personalized insights in areas such as impending illness and menstrual cycles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

His impending arrival means Martinez could now move to Juventus with the Old Lady having held an interest in the 33-year-old this summer.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

When stung, patients report a feeling of impending doom; some patients are so certain that death is imminent they beg physicians to kill them so they can “get it over with.”

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin