impends
- present tense form of impend (3rd person singular).
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
Upon such grounds as these impends a suit before whose complications the most intrepid jurists were struck dumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the recent convulsion has the crater but shifted Let us revere that sacred uncertainty which forever impends over men and nations.
From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman
