Approaching; drawing near; about to happen(adjective)
Present participle of impend.(verb)
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Use "impending" in a sentence
"The long-suffering bleakness was very pronounced on Nancy's face, and when the walls of water, in impending downfall, reared above the"
"So he has been preparing for what he calls his impending “dirt nap.”"
"Even while he termed the impending situation as "grim," President Pervez Musharraf felt emboldened enough by his own declaration of the end of a 42-day State of Emergency on 15 December 2007 to declare on state television that: "The democratic process has been put back again on the rails"; a debatable proposition, with the judiciary and private broadcast media still under restraints."