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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

Now is the time when biting old Boreas,    True to his calling, the tempests impend; His hailstones in fury are pelting before us,    Our fingers are smarting, and heads they are bent.

From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

From this point, the ruins, assuming a new character, seem to occupy a gentle eminence, and impend over the river without the intervention of a single cottage to obstruct the view. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

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

Not until failure impends are directors apt to realize their liability for proper conduct of a bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

For them my heart bleeds; them I would save from the death which impends.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William

Britons wondered whether a Liberal showdown impended at last.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis 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

The works are scheduled to go on display in Europe, and the trove’s impending departure has ignited one of Mexico’s most heated cultural controversies in recent memory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Rolling Stones were there to chronicle the impending hangover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

The only way out was to “correct” his equations of general relativity to stave off the impending destruction.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife