Example sentences for: impending

How can you use “impending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today's coverage of the impending Senate actions on impeachment includes a journalism tic that Today's Papers deplores.

  • The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.

  • The Egyptian government's objection to the impending FBI takeover of the EgyptAir 990 investigation--plus the mounting evidence that a co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane--leads at the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times (the Wall Street Journal also fronts a long article).

  • Others have confirmed hearing indications of an impending attack and have verified that such news, albeit without specific details, had spread across al Qaeda.

  • Both pieces run through the arguments, with the Journal coming down on the side of optimism and the Times piece, while avoiding a flat prediction of impending doom, says that with the "myth of Asian invincibility" gone, "we have lost a foundation stone."


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