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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

There,—when harvest heights impend Over shores of rippling summer, And to greet the fair new-comer,— June,—the wildrose thickets bend In a million blossoms dressed,— All the land is one with rest.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein

From this point, the ruins, assuming a new character, seem to occupy a gentle eminence, and impend over the river without the intervention of a single cottage to obstruct the view. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Leitch Ritchie

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

Upon such grounds as these impends a suit before whose complications the most intrepid jurists were struck dumb.

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

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

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

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

Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.

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

That position, while it guarantees him a highly lucrative contract, is complicated by the impending lockout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

The successes or failures of the impending summit will give him, and the rest of us, a taste of what might lie ahead.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

As debts rose in the 2010s, fiscal hawks warned of an impending crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

As the Dodgers shifted into what will be an uncertain offseason due to an impending lockout, Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes reflected on whether the dynasty has ended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In November, after a hair-raising, bumpy bus ride to Shillong, amidst rumors of Chinese occupation and India’s impending defeat, Estha and Rahel were born.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy