Example Sentences

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Initially, Whitcomb wrestled with doubts that her basketball demands were impinging on her duties as a new mom.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023

“She wasn’t an extrovert per se, but half of Sabrina was looking out the window at all times,Some other set of realities were impinging on the one that we were all in with her.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

One of them, a Tesla employee who had been hired to work remotely, told Reuters that the mixed messages were impinging on work.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2022

It was as though, somewhere, a piano were playing and the actual notes were impinging on his ear-drums.

From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston