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“Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don’t linger there.”

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2017

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

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

The strike and the lockout become potential, but they impend as possibilities and do their work.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

One speaks upon occasion, giving him warning when grave troubles impend.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

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

The danger which impends daily and every day ceases to be feared.

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John

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

In another Manhattan art-huckstering shop, one more sale impended in the life of a vase once owned by Catherine the Great and later smashed by Napoleon.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 61-year-old, a previous president of the UN General Assembly, has suggested creating an "early warning" system to detect and flag signs of impending conflict.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Meza said when she learned of the impending closure, she and her parents called around to neighboring mobile home parks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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