Example Sentences

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Howard has been dealing with what the Wizards have described as “gluteal soreness,” and the injury had impinged his lower body movement throughout the season, limiting him to nine of the Wizards' first 21 games.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2018

At first the amazing beauty of Thoreau's wife had impinged itself upon his senses with something of a shock.

From Back to God's Country and Other Stories by Curwood, James Oliver

For a sound like the whiffling of a wind through dry sticks combined with the creaking of a saw had, impinged on his senses.

From The Burning Spear by Galsworthy, John

A graver thing, the thought of merging his identity with the Rat’s, had impinged, obtruded itself, as it were, upon his mind.

From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

Something or somebody had impinged upon his intelligence.

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider