impend (verb)

1. The performance of the opera is about to impend, and the audience eagerly awaits the opening night.

2. In the last panel of the comic book, the hero's defeat at the hands of the villain impends.

3. As the couple walked hand in hand along the beach, a feeling of love and anticipation impended in the air.

4. The prophecies predicted that a great calamity would impend upon the land, and the people prayed for divine intervention.