impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
are impending
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present progressiveof impend.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Both Bryant and running back DeMarco Murray are impending free agents.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2015
Tobey: Did you ever contemplate warning the public . . . that these changes are impending and they might go a little slowly in buying the sets?
From Time Magazine Archive
When nuclear tests are impending, whether by the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., all sorts of instruments are checked and tuned for superfine sensitivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those weeks, Colberg Siege, Pitt's Catastrophe and high things are impending, or completed, elsewhere: but this is the one thing noticeable hereabouts.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
Would it not be a crime for us to think, to wait, and to calculate, when such great dangers are impending?
From The Clique of Gold by Émile Gaboriau
