impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
had been impending
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past perfect progressiveof impend.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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But it took half-an-hour to row from the Wasp to the shore, and before the half of that time had elapsed, the storm which had been impending burst over the island.
From Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The insignificance of such a creature in the face of a material disaster as had been impending appalled him.
From Command by William McFee
But it took half an hour to row from the Wasp to the shore, and before the half of that time had elapsed, the storm which had been impending burst over the island.
From Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But the storm that had been impending the whole afternoon, was just then giving full vent to its fury.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
The storm that had been impending for days, had broken at last.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
