impend
verb (used without object)
to be imminent; be about to happen.
impends
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present tense formof impend (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
And it being the middle of May mosquito season impends.
From US News ● May 13, 2016
Peril impends when a note comes announcing that her visit must be put off.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011
As carnival impends, an imminence like electricity waits in the air, an itching in the mind invites convulsion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The abrupt termination of the mass of rock at the river, where its thickness is undiminished, clearly shows that it would proceed much farther if not arrested by the stream, over which it impends slightly.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
