impend

Example Sentences

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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

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

I am too deeply distressed by the evils that afflict, or that may seem to impend over my people, not to have sought a means to prevent them.

From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)