Sample Sentences for
impending
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    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.  (source)
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    Trying to put a positive spin on my impending demise.  (source)
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    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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    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)
    impending = about to happen
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    They "played off" (shirked) or played sick when battle impended.†  (source)
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    Invasion still impends.†  (source)
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    I couldn't sleep that night because I kept thinking about my impending doom.  (source)
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    Amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm.†  (source)
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    …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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    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)
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    ...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.  (source)
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    The final preparations personal to the latter being speedily brought to an end by two boatswain's mates, the consummation impended.†  (source)
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    And the raptor holding pen was rebuilt with electronic sensors to warn of another impending escape.†  (source)
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