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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

Of its four windows, two, those at the side, had been blinded by the uprising of an ugly brick wall, which seemed to impend over the room, crowding into it, depriving it of air.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

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 Ritchie, Leitch

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

On the contrary, it is clear that the leaders of great nations have it in their power to liberate their peoples from the disaster that impends.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the great Bill impends, why flee the festive scene?

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

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

Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended.

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

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

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

Thankfully, Jimmy knew of a nest being built on the outskirts of Bishop Auckland which would happily take in the giggle of galahs, alongside its impending parliament of owls and pandemonium of parrots.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

The Rolling Stones were there to chronicle the impending hangover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The secretary-general was offering a vague plan to avoid an impending trade war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Elliot Anderson will now become the most expensive British player in history as the midfielder's impending £116m move to Manchester City from Nottingham Forest shatters previous marks.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Most of us Marines were spending more time joking and talking about how the war had to end soon than worrying about the impending battle.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac