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 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
Unhappy Bourbons! a fatality seems to impend over the race; and Charles the Tenth appears doomed to die, as he has lived the greater portion of his life, in exile.
From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
Vocabulary lists containing impend
Latin Love, Vol III: pendere
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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pend, pens, List 2
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