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

The walls of the castellated abbey impend, and jut out in bold decided masses; and the whole is crowned by the florid choir of the abbey church.

From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell

The wreck and ruin of a great railroad system to his exaggerated senses seemed to impend on his success in a daring dive.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen