How to use impending in a sentence

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• Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.From the entry tumble
• The letter warned of an impending shutoff if payment was not made promptly.From the entry shutoff
• As news of the impending layoffs spread faster, the company finally began damage control.From the entry damage control
• The playgoing public will be sad to learn of the theatre's impending closure.From the entry playgoing
• They were unapprehensive of the impending danger.From the entry unapprehensive
• The company preannounced the impending takeover.From the entry preannounce
• Adele fans insist that her impending album is ushering in Adele szn.2021 October 11, Shane O’Neill, “October Isn’t Just a Month Anymore. It’s a Whole Szn.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry szn
• How should we, on our small island in Spain be preparing for an inevitable and impending Brexocalypse?2019 March, “Galley Goddess”, in The Islander Magazine, page 116. From the entry Brexocalypse
• There is also great concern about an impending invasion by cybergeeks.2018, A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman, US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint. From the entry cybergeek
• Under hypercapitalism, the most beautiful things are the surest signs of impending crisis.2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry hypercapitalism
• “I place a geis upon you, my son,” I rasped, my eyes burning with impending wrath.2016, Yasmine Galenorn, Once Upon A Curse: 17 Dark Faerie Tales, Fiddlehead Press, →ISBN. From the entry geis
• Instant nausea, impaired vision, and the feeling of impending death, all prior to lights out.2012, Jeni Decker, I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames. From the entry lights out
• The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.2011, Al Roker, Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders: A Billy Blessing Novel, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry corpsehood
• Instead of their clear blue, they were the deep green usually associated with impending violence.2005 March 31, Clayton, “Re: [PW!] To the Tourney”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet). From the entry vworp
• The second is the probability of a mismaneuver in the face of an impending accident.1989, Per Bruun, Port Engineering, page 186. From the entry mismaneuver
• 'I can't allow it,' insisted Carrados, moved by the horror of what he saw impending.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry bungle
• The day's atmosphere is surcharged with noisome anxiety, the hours laden with impending terrors.1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 6, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. From the entry noisome
• Ostensibly a ten-year-anniversary event, the rerelease also happened to coincide with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and the impending U.S. election.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 39. From the entry rerelease
• Numerous “paper towns” were created often in an effort to block impending municipal annexation advances by existing municipalities.2018, Russell M. Smith, Municipal Incorporation Activity in the United States: Patterns, People and Procedures, Springer, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry paper town
• For this talk, I needed a name to describe this impending new era, so I made up a word: NISQ.[2018, John Preskill, “Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond”, in Quantum, volume 2, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2021…. From the entry NISQ
• Nevertheless the Emperors were unsettled owing, there can be no doubt, to the knowledge that bad weather was impending.2016, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913. From the entry emperor
• Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN. From the entry dullahan
• The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott.2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist. From the entry scrape
• Eating a whole nutmeg can lead to “nutmeg psychosis,” which includes feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation.2009, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: The Best of listverse.com, →ISBN, page 448. From the entry nutmeg psychosis
• Doubled up but something doesn't feel right (impending leak?).2009 March 14, @dannytheninja, Twitter. From the entry ABDLism
• However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.1996, George Thomas Kurian, Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future, volume 1, page 212. From the entry pessimistic
• But until his mother broke the news to him during a mid-January phone call, he had no clue about his impending freedom.2023 April 3, Jeff Weiss, “‘I don’t believe in anything but art’”, in Los Angeles Times, page E6. From the entry re-entrance
• Without early warning of impending regulations and trigger points there is a danger that the chaos around the regulations on interlinked smoke-detectors could be repeated.2022, Stuart Paton, Alison Payne, “Clear timeline of regulation for phasing out gas in homes”, in Powering Ahead: Decarbonising Scotland’s…. From the entry smoke-detector
• I think I had a panic attack last night, a sense of rising panic and impending doom – chest tight, short of breath, shaking.2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 33. From the entry panic attack
• Now a group of interdisciplinary researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contend that fears of an impending Spermageddon have been vastly overstated.2021 June 4, Rachel E. Gross, “The Sperm-Count 'Crisis' Doesn't Add Up”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022. From the entry spermageddon
• Amidst talk of an impending ‘treemageddon’, it began to dawn that Chalara could be an environmental disaster with just as great an impact.2013, Clive Potter, “Saving Britain’s Trees: Countering the growing threat from invasive pests and diseases”, in ECOS, volume 34, number…. From the entry treemageddon
• Ruth stares out of her office window, across the courtyard towards the artificial lake, and thinks about the impending trip to the sea light.2012, Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry sea light
• Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings.1999, Mona the Vampire, "There's No Place Like Gnome" (season 1, episode 4b). From the entry gnome-napping
• “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128. From the entry bugle
• Conspiracists convinced of an impending apocalyptic battle will begin “preparing for TEOTWAWKI, because they appear to have a deep-seated, almost nihilistic wish for everything just to end.”2019, Thomas Milan Konda, Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 323. From the entry TEOTWAWKI
• The name death's flower relates to an old belief that a solitary snowdrop indicates impending death, with suggestions that it was inauspicious to bring snowdrops indoors.2016, Gail Harland, Snowdrop (Botanical), London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN. From the entry snowdrop
• I try to think of a new way of asking the Health Department's nominated flak-catcher, junior minister David Mellor, about the impending back-bench revolt over health charges.1989, Sean Day-Lewis, One day in the life of television, page 4. From the entry flak-catcher

Meaning of impending

1. adjective Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
2. noun Something that impends or threatens; an expected event.

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Questions about impending in a sentence

How do you use impending in a sentence?

Impending is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.”

What is a short sentence with impending?

“The company preannounced the impending takeover.”

What does impending mean?

Impending means approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.