impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
have been impending
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present perfect progressiveof impend.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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But the 24-year-old Bojorquez’s dynamic preseason performance, and what would probably would have been impending free agency after the season, made for a “a little bit of a conundrum,” Snead said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
It was a brief struggle, ending in a submission as sudden, and their lips met in a kiss, so eager that it might have been impending for days instead of minutes.
From Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte
