impinge

How To Use impinge In A Sentence

• Crookes, a toy called the spinthariscope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenomena. The World Set Free
• For an athlete to commit that much time will impinge on their road career. Times, Sunday Times
• When one impinges on the other there is an uneasy feeling - the kind which happens when unrelated TV shows crossover during the sweeps week on American television.
• Even bilateral treaties impinge upon non-parties: the distribution of values between two parties can rarely be contained within neatly drawn lines.
• Freud called attention to preconscious dimensions that impinge on our behavior but never dispensed with them.
• But in all cases they refer to behaviour that has impinged adversely on others, usually those closest to me.
• It severely limits mobility, and it causes wear and tear on the spine, leading to nerve impingement in the weakened areas and in the sciatica. Elizabeth Taylor's health problems began early
• He has two types of impingement, a "pincer" and a "cam," and Philippon will only repair the pincer impingement in tomorrow's procedure. Undefined
• However, before exploring this problematic I want to establish the strange way in which the sailors 'taunt impinges on Equiano's interpellation of George into his masochistic reading of Foxe. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
• Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.