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 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

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 Cawein, Madison Julius