[ US /ˌɪmˈpɛnd/ ]
VERB
  1. be imminent or about to happen
    Changes are impending
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How To Use impend In A Sentence

  • Last year, the Iranian government blocked five million websites for having allegedly pornographic content and disseminating impendent news information to the public. Media Repression in Iran
  • Not without a painful emotion of impending danger, as I watched the stellular reflections dancing in the rushing river, did I wander on in the wake of a group of pack-ponies, and took my turn in being assisted over the broken chasms by the muleteers. Across China on Foot
  • These consequences have yet to be understood by most physicians, not to mention the public, the media or arguably even the promulgators of this impending disaster.
  • On balance, her ample stomach seems to suggest more impending motherhood than lax calorie control. Times, Sunday Times
  • And this is the only symptom whereby we find out and discern the nature of threatened impendent judgments. The Sermons of John Owen
  • This tendency to associate - designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us.
  • He was warned hours before voters went to the polls about the impending doom. The Sun
  • Five women and their partners wrestle with the demands of impending parenthood, and discover that it's not as easy as the books make it out to be. The Sun
  • Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
  • Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance.
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