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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 walls of the castellated abbey impend, and jut out in bold decided masses; and the whole is crowned by the florid choir of the abbey church.

From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman

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

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

Some businessmen already fear a depression impends over the U. S. The boat chuffed along the greening, creek-cut shore of Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vt., an afternoon last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, whenever tract values rise and development impends, good productive land, which the country may well miss later as populations grow and food supplies for them thin out, goes permanently under pavements and construction.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.

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

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

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

When Addison's Disease and its treatment came up for report at Philadelphia, a fight for glory impended.

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

One story for Wakefield to thrive upon is the impending retirement of stalwart back-rower Jay Pitts.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The impending return of Sam Curran from a groin injury - who remains important as a left-handed batter and seam-bowling option in the top seven - could also create a squeeze for places.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

This week Xi, in announcing the impending arrival of the pair in Atlanta, said the panda was “an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and Americans.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the scene, set just before the events of 2002’s “Resident Evil,” executives at the diabolical Umbrella Corporation gather to discuss the world’s impending end.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

As the school year wound down, the junior class and I walked the halls with a sense of impending ownership.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam