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  • Trying to put a positive spin on my impending demise.  (source)
  • I couldn't sleep that night because I kept thinking about my impending doom.  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
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  • I decide not to bring up my mom's impending visit.  (source)
    impending = about to happen
  • Invasion still impends.†  (source)
  • They "played off" (shirked) or played sick when battle impended.†  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
  • Upon the following vault We now had mounted, where the rock impends Directly o'er the centre of the foss.†  (source)
  • When Walter Morel and Jerry arrived at Bestwood they felt a load off their minds; a railway journey no longer impended, so they could put the finishing touches to a glorious day.†  (source)
  • ...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.  (source)
  • The bottom is so deep, no place suffices To give us sight of it, without ascending The arch's back, where most the crag impends.†  (source)
  • The final preparations personal to the latter being speedily brought to an end by two boatswain's mates, the consummation impended.†  (source)
  • …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.  (source)
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