impending
IPA: ɪmpˈɛndɪŋ
noun
- Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.
adjective
- Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
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Examples of "impending" in Sentences
- It may be a sign of impending senility.
- I have a presentiment of impending doom.
- The impending storm is creeping higher up the scale.
- The ships took up positions for the impending attack.
- The apprehension of an impending attack continued to grow.
- Citizens are anxiously awaiting the impending budget for 2010.
- An unknown person had phoned the police of the impending explosion.
- So he has been preparing for what he calls his impending “dirt nap.”
- Thanks for the warning about the impending deletion of this redirect.
- Broadly, there seems to be momentum and presentiment of impending victory.
- Today, we live in absolute suspicion and constant presentiment of an impending disaster.
- She called the impending contracts a sign that security gains are attracting foreign investment in Iraq.
- The long-suffering bleakness was very pronounced on Nancy's face, and when the walls of water, in impending downfall, reared above the
- Luz picked up her cup and added cream to the strong brew, aware that Hector was referring to the impending arrival of the other polo students.
- But there was no question that the States at this juncture, and in spite of the dangers impending from the Spanish marriages, must have an ambassador ready to do his best to keep France from prematurely sliding into positive hostility to them.
- 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.