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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

To Hugh a crisis seemed to impend, but he held off for the Gilmores, who seemed to be used to crises.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

When the idea of an authoritative revelation of divine truth has been finally dislodged, there are moments when moral chaos seems to impend.

From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

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

Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor less the satiate year impends   When, wearying of routine-resorts, The pleasure-hunter shall break loose,   Ned, for our Pantheistic ports:— Marquesas and glenned isles that be Authentic Edens in a Pagan sea.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville

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

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

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

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

But no one thought those warnings elevated to a point of a crisis, or an impending crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The warnings had come from four different people in the space of minutes and helped him evaluate the impending danger.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

He told me he had gotten “at least 100 calls” since the local news item announcing the impending closure.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

On social media, leaks of impending purges often appear in subtle forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The two diagonals of the words “tres important” and “faire suivre” meet on the envelope at a point, an arrowhead—giving an impression of flight, purpose, urgency—or an impending wound.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman