Example Sentences

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“She was dehydrated, she hadn’t had her medication and she was sitting in her own wee,” she adds, uncomfortable at impinging on her mother’s dignity.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2024

Those things are impinging on what cells do and the genes they will use.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

"I don't think that's impinging on anybody's First Amendment rights to protect my staff."

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

In the past, critics have viewed “debt-for-nature swaps” as impinging on the national sovereignty of indebted countries by placing financial and environmental decision-making power in the hands of foreign entities.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023

The stream of high-speed electrons impinging upon the energy beam fluoresced into ultra-spicules of intense light.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov