Sample sentences for IMPENDING

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about to happen

impending = about to happen

impending = about to happen

...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
This speech in itself should have been enough to warn Lord Dawlish of impending doom.
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville -- Uneasy Money
John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of his adopted child.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
From this time Felix was more employed, and the heart-moving indications of impending famine disappeared.
Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
I decide not to bring up my mom's impending visit.
Nicola Yoon -- Everything, Everything

impending = about to happen

I couldn't sleep that night because I kept thinking about my impending doom.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

impending = about to happen

Trying to put a positive spin on my impending demise.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

impending = about to happen

When they had eaten they talked about many things: about the heavy rains which were drowning the yams, about the next ancestral feast and about the impending war with the village of Mbaino.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

impending = about to happen

...he was to pass for the phantom of the White Lady who, as all the world knows, appears at the Louvre every time any great event is impending.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

impending = about to happen

McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well, relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

impending = about to happen

Under the strain of this continually-impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

impending = about to happen

...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

impending = about to happen

...and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

impending = about to happen

Given the impending war with Apophis, it was best not to think about how soon our lives might end.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
All swayed with impending fall.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
You couldn't hire one of them to go back during the century, if the explosion was still impending.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Fear flickered in his eyes as he faced his foe; then came wonder, a glint of amusement, dark anger, and the terrible instinct of death impending.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
Her body stiffened against his, and he felt a strange emotion within her: a sense of impending momentousness.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance

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