The country braced for an impending war.    From LearnThat.org. 

Verb (used without object) : He felt that danger impended.    From Dictionary.com. 

Edward VI. and Elizabeth, that ruin began finally to impend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference

Should any sudden danger impend you must at once communicate it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

England withdrew her aid, and inevitable ruin seemed to impend over his throne and kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Ethelberta could get back to Milton again, for Neigh was continuing to impend over her future more and more visibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference

He leaves a less vivid impression than his predecessor because he did not impend for so long upon the European scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

Surely, the heavens will tremble; trade wars impend; the apocalypse of Depression era Smoot Hawley tariffs are about to descend upon us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Borosage: Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision] Reference

Only when both are mature enough for harvest time to impend can one tell them apart well enough to pull up the tares without also pulling up the wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

The weight of the enemy crushes down the hills and makes the planet tremble; agony and eternal night impend; and where the Austrian horses drink, the water fails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

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!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

Chiaja, and up strange paths which impend over the grotto of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

They were his rock of refuge in any cataclysm that might impend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunker Bean] Reference

They impend over the town, and are threatened to fall in the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Two high cliffs near it impend over the sea, which are commonly called the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference

Further attacks impend on jobs and resourcing, maybe under the guise of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialist Party] Reference

Riots -- all these attest how volcanic is its under stratum, and what dangers impend above.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference

Distracted, suggests that this distraction and loss of focus could impend a coming dark age.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference

By Conrad Black Colossal spending and regulatory programs impend, based on the Al Gore conventional.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Copenhagen agenda: emissions, carbon markets and a UN grilling on CDM] Reference

To Hugh a crisis seemed to impend, but he held off for the Gilmores, who seemed to be used to crises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference

Fort Sumter, though conflict with the Confederacy about Fort Pickens and the rest would still impend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Mr. Honeythunder began to impend, must have been highly gratifying to the feelings of that distinguished man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

How does he comport himself in the face of all the changes and modifications that have taken place and that still impend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry James, Jr.] Reference

"The amount of people driving does impend a certain doom, but otherwise in Lawrence I feel free anytime to be out and about.".    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

Orchards of cherry-trees impend from the steeps above the village, which to our certain knowledge produce no contemptible fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

Englishmen sate in the Parliament and in the Council, we might hope that they would relent at the thought of the calamities which impend over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference

From these reflections, the sense of my own danger was revived and enforced; but I likewise ruminated on the evils which might impend over others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

This messenger had come to warn us of danger which might impend, and to summon us to join in the pursuit and extirpation of these detestable foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

Behind the stranger pressed his three companions now, whilst the troopers across the room forgot their card-play to watch the altercation that seemed to impend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

For in the day fences are about us, roofs and towers impend above our heads, we are cribbed in streets and markets, the din of rhetoric or sordid bargaining fills our ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference

A mile they appeared to tower and almost impend over us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference

Can thy skill tell whence, or by whose means, such danger seems to impend?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference