How to Use impend in a Sentence

impend

verb

• When the speech was over, the air in the room went to the impending goodbye.
  — Nikki Haley, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• Baynes is an impending free agent who has missed the past month with a hip injury.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• The virus’s impending arrival has caused New Yorkers to grow concerned in the past week.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Thunder clapped and clouds rolled in — a warning of impending rain — as a crowd of people grew.
  — Oyin Adedoyin, baltimoresun.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The win, which came in a game moved up a night because of impending weather, was Homewood's last region game of the season.
  — Al.com Reports, al, 25 Oct. 2019
• Though Duncan had not announced his impending retirement at the time, there was a sense of goodbye in the air.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
• Jones, who has also shown safety range over the years, checks in 32nd on Pro Football Focus’ list of impending free agents.
  — Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• The hint of an impending change surfaced Monday and a day later, Shurmur benched the man who has been the face of the organization for the past 15-plus years.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Desert Sun San Francisco vape shops are deeply worried about the city’s impending ban on the sale of e-cigarettes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Not a cloud of impending doom, but more of uncertainty.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2019
• Foremost, an impending free agent cannot be signed between the end of the season and the July start of free agency, when such a player can be signed by any team.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• About a minute later, with the plane at about 450 feet, the pilots’ control sticks began shaking, warning of an impending stall.
  — Chris Hamby, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2020
• People familiar with the transaction said Mr. Cohen had been in a rush to close due to an impending tax event.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Compton was not surprised by his impending firing, but the idea that his aides would be punished along with him was crushing.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Even gift cards for impending 2020 purchases can be found at one Bucktown smoke shop.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The sequence starts off with Arya running (or being chased) through what looks like the halls of Winterfell, but the main highlight of the clip is the impending battle between the living and the dead.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2019
• Here are 13 runway-show feasts to get you in the mood for your holiday gathering and impending food coma.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
• Another storyline adding to the drama: the Raiders’ impending move to Las Vegas in 2020.
  — cleveland.com, 12 June 2019
• The robot flails about waving his silver arms warning of impending doom.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Irving didn’t handle the pressure of playing in the final year of his contract well or the questions about his impending free agency.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
• Rumors about impending action by police to clear the road has not deterred them, either.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• Robert Rice was initially unfazed by warnings of the impending storm.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• As party favors, the Roy family would like to offer you a dark and terrible sense of impending doom!
  — Emily St. James, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2023
• In this other image, the family's truth offers no sign of impending tragedy.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 July 2019
• For many Afghans, this looks less like impending reconciliation and more like an ominous taste of things to come.
  — The Economist, 3 Sep. 2019
• The warm response to Mary Lee marked a departure from the sheer terror instilled by a shark with the same iconic gray fin that in the 1970s became a universal symbol of impending doom.
  — Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• That way, if the hormonal changes that induce ovulation are impending, the levonorgestrel has more time to stop them before an egg is released.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 1 Apr. 2019
• As the pilot interrupted to inform us of our impending landing, a landmass appeared in the window to my right.
  — Natasha Bazika, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2020
• In Montreal, Armin Morattab had calmed down about the danger of his twin brother traveling through what had felt like an impending war.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Coyotes' impending move to Fox Sports 910 is about more than a different radio frequency.
  — Richard Morin, azcentral, 13 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024