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
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
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
This is so badly distributed that serious social disorders are impending.
From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
"I feel, Philip, that great events are impending and that your dispatch or the effect of it will be a part in some gigantic plan."
From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
