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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

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

Now is the time when biting old Boreas,    True to his calling, the tempests impend; His hailstones in fury are pelting before us,    Our fingers are smarting, and heads they are bent.

From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

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

As carnival impends, an imminence like electricity waits in the air, an itching in the mind invites convulsion.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have striven to avert the catastrophe which now impends over the country, unsuccessfully; and I regret it.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.

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

When Addison's Disease and its treatment came up for report at Philadelphia, a fight for glory impended.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The works are scheduled to go on display in Europe, and the trove’s impending departure has ignited one of Mexico’s most heated cultural controversies in recent memory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, manosphere-adjacent influencers like Andrew Huberman have discussed declining male sperm counts on their podcasts, with Joe Rogan warning of an impending "population collapse".

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

For many years, if you needed to take a flight due to a family member’s death or impending death, airlines would offer a discounted bereavement, or compassionate, ticket.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Tonali's impending exit was crucial, though, to enable Newcastle to create further headroom within the game's financial rules to reinvest in several areas of the side.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Bobby loved being there and was in a perpetually good mood, with thoughts of growing rich from the impending match.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady