How to Use impinge in a Sentence

impinge

verb

• But the tank does impinge on the front passenger’s work boots a bit.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• This is not the first time that New Boise has impinged on Dudley’s livelihood.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 13 Apr. 2018
• Soon tall cliffs of ice are towering above the impinging waves.
  — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2016
• Values in this sense are prior to facts, while facts impinge on our values from the outside.
  — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• But his surgeon wondered whether the culprit was a bone spur that was seen on an MRI impinging on a nerve.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2017
• In one sense, Madrid’s poor domestic form shouldn’t impinge on its hopes in Europe.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• There’s so many factors that can impinge upon the expression of that bond.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Gun rights advocates say the law impinges on Second Amendment rights and lacks due process.
  — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2019
• In the memo, Shah said employees should be prepared to work longer hours and not be afraid to let work impinge on their personal lives.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
• This didn’t seem like a very good design to me, that one sense — sight — should be impinged upon by the organ of another sense: smell.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 June 2017
• The next step was for people to use it in the real world, but the messiness of nature had a way of impinging on the purity of Takens’ math.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2015
• Once installed, a child seat impinges on only the last iota of front-seat travel for taller drivers.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
• The judge also raised concerns that shutting down the NRA could impinge the free speech and assembly rights of its millions of members.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
• A lot of rank-and-file voters will take notice when big brands speak out against measures that impinge on Americans’ right to vote.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Apr. 2021
• Our citizens deserve to know why these global threats matter and impinge on our very way of life.
  — Roger Wicker, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• If used en masse and with facial recognition software, this could impinge on First and Fourth amendment rights.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
• Claire also collects about 25 percent of the stray light from outside its field of view, which impinges on its detector.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• At 70 mph, only 67 decibels of noise will impinge on All Things Considered.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 14 May 2020
• Someone might feel their time impinged upon by their boss’s time, or a mother by her family’s time.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The court found, therefore, that True health didn't impinge on the Clinic's patent for treatment methods or induce anyone else to violate the patent.
  — Jane Morice, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• The court found, therefore, that True Health didn't impinge on the Clinic's patent for treatment methods or induce anyone else to violate the patent.
  — Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• Smells like wool, leather, animal soap and petrichor—the bloom of rocks after rain—rarely impinge, either.
  — Sam Kean, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Fighting the bots Performers, promoters and venues have come up with ways to impinge on the bots and third-party sales, with varying results.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 29 Oct. 2017
• The scan on the left showed Sharon’s torso in May 2001, a massive tumor impinging her left lung, the pleural effusion flooding her chest.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 20 June 2017
• Hua said in answer to a question about whether China’s military drill would impinge on those waters.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Projects often impinge on indigenous lands, which can slow things down further.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• And presently, definitely, magically, a thin silver stain began to form in the tube where the flame impinged on it.
  — Deborah Blum, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2013
• As moisture on south winds impinged on the front, near Ellicott City, storm cells blossomed in the unstable afternoon air.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
• Take Sundy Praia, a tented camp on the beach, which was built from scratch four years ago and is deliberately hidden from view so as not to impinge on the untouched landscape.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2022
• County rules prohibit buildings from impinging on a public right of way, the letter says.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024