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Definition of "impending" []

  • 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."