Example Sentences

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It is a voluminous apprehension, a towering impendency.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Then the breathless impendency of the event swept his mind clear of details.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Their eyes rested upon the mountainside they had just left—oppressed by some dark sense of tragic impendency.

From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)