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We all tuned in on Spy-zeta-prime to see what future developments might impend.

Coercri loomed above him; with the sun behind it, it seemed to impend toward the Sea as if it were about to fall.

Law Approved in 1982 The legislature approved a law in 1982 requiring spouses seeking divorces to swear that they will do nothing to impend their partners from remarrying.

The horrors of war would always impend over them, till Germany were seized and divided by Austrian and Prussian tyrants; an event which he strongly suspected was at no great distance.

But the gush of philanthropy that burst forth when the departure of Mr. Honeythunder began to impend, must have been highly gratifying to the feelings of that distinguished man.

I was bound by a solemn promise, which I had not yet fulfilled, and dared not break; or, if I did, what manifold miseries might not impend over me and my devoted family!

Pool shooting is best when it is the afternoon sun of a workday that is shuttered out, with the players at other tables as trouble-free silhouettes, forgotten like ideal apartment neighbors, until they impend into the table light for a shot.

In this state, with a mad, momentary defiance, he unslung his bow and discharged arrow after arrow, emptying his quiver at the huge and bleak and formless shadow that seemed to impend before him on the sky.

In horror, very bad things have to happen to people - or, at the least, to impend ominously - and the perpetrators of those atrocities tend to be in extraordinarily foul moods, especially when, as in the case of ghosts and zombies, they have recently risen from the dead.