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Example sentences for "impinged"

Lexicographically close words:
impident; impietie; impieties; impiety; impinge; impinges; impinging; impious; impiously; impis
  1. I am of the opinion that his feelings went farther and impinged on the domain of actual disgust.

  2. Eighty years ago the settlements with a few exceptions scarcely impinged on the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.

  3. One would have believed it within a dozen miles, yet when, an hour later, he rattled into Lone Tree, it seemed no nearer than when first it impinged on the quivering horizon.

  4. The tip of the expanding spray impinged on the hull--and Nona gasped her astonishment.

  5. A pale blue beam slithered across the blackness, impinged upon the pillow where his head had lain only a moment before.

  6. She awoke early to find a wind humming in the tree-tops and immediately there impinged upon her nostrils the odour of burning wood.

  7. The thin pungent song of a mosquito impinged upon the stillness, something settled on his neck and there followed a swift sting like the puncture of a hypodermic needle.

  8. Never, thought Tara of Helium, had aught so delicious impinged upon her palate, and yet it was naught else than the almost tasteless usa, which is considered to be palatable only after having been cooked and highly spiced.

  9. Gahan rose from the couch of O-Mai, smiling, only to swing quickly about with drawn sword as the shadow of a noise impinged upon his keen ears from the shadows behind him.

  10. So Godfrey felt in that hour and the same influences impinged upon and affected even the girl's bold, denying soul.

  11. Something or somebody had impinged upon his intelligence.

  12. Red Eagle, sleeping the sleep of the just and tired, heard the shout of alarm, and it impinged so heavily upon his unconscious brain that he was shocked at once into an awakening.

  13. Too much had impinged upon his mind for him to distinguish between fancy and reality yet awhile, but a powerful feeling that another miracle had been wrought in his behalf seized upon him and would not let go.

  14. Now it has never been asserted or pretended that the Chinese, even at a much later period than this, had advanced beyond the use of monogram stamps impinged by hand.

  15. The banks were low, not over three feet above the surface of the water, except where the ridge impinged upon the stream.

  16. The walls of the garden impinged upon the river, and there ended; for the bank was steep and vertical, and the deep, still water that ran under it formed a sufficient protection on that side.

  17. Here the sierras impinged upon the river, forming a canon.

  18. These particles of ether, therefore, when too closely impinged upon by their neighbours, resent the impact, and in doing so initiate etheric whirlwinds, from whose vast perturbances stupendous drifts set out.

  19. But, in 1567, the gable of Darnley's house actually impinged on, and had a window and a door through the town wall on, the west according to the chart.

  20. But, by the contemporary chart, the only part of Darnley's house which was in contact with the town wall ran east to west, and impinged on the town wall, which here ran south to north.

  21. Then came a dull thud overhead, a slight rumble, the click of a cell door, followed by an agonizing groan, ending with the pang of a sob that impinged cruelly upon the awesome, dead solitude.

  22. The gentle barking of a squirrel impinged like a nerve-shattering noise.

  23. And that same instinct, or reason, impinged upon him the fact that it was a thing to be guarded against.

  24. Yet the necessity of caution impinged itself upon him even in the recklessness of his determination to find her if he had to walk into the arms of the law that was hunting him.

  25. This was the only way in which the Soviet Red Cross impinged upon us.

  26. No, sir; as a matter of fact, the only way in which the Soviet Red Cross impinged upon my experience in Moscow was that they were the organ for handling whereabouts inquiries of persons living in the Soviet Union.

  27. The progress of an echinococcus {1106} tumor is exceedingly slow, and the development of symptoms produced by its extension is early or late according to its position and to the nature of the parts impinged on.

  28. If the vena cava is impinged on or the portal vein, the usual results--ascites and oedema of the lower extremities and of the scrotum--will be manifest.

  29. The jets of gas, instead of impinging upon each other, impinged against the plate, and united above to form the flame.

  30. His career has impinged upon the five great cities of Boston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, London, and New York.

  31. Marette was the very heart of that reality which impinged itself upon him now.

  32. It fascinated him, impinged itself upon him as the watcher of a million years, guarding the valley.

  33. But it impinged upon him the truth of one of two things: either these grotesque looking monsters did not dare to fight him, or they were very peaceful and had no intention of harming him.

  34. The second visual proof of Thor's displeasure impinged upon Muskwa the fact that the older bears were not in a mood to tolerate the companionship of cubs, and the result was a wary and suspicious truce between him and Pipoonaskoos.

  35. The obvious desirability of such events to one of motherly type defrauded by fate of children was terribly impinged on by that old memory, and a solicitude for her "pretty" far exceeding what she would have had for a daughter of her own.

  36. The white blur of her new boudoir cap suddenly impinged on his consciousness.

  37. For a sound like the whiffling of a wind through dry sticks combined with the creaking of a saw had, impinged on his senses.

  38. The incidents of the passing moment scarcely impinged upon his consciousness.

  39. But suddenly an alien sound impinged on the quietude.

  40. Hertz, who discovered the electric waves which Marconi now so successfully uses in wireless telegraphy, showed us in 1887 that conductors reflected these waves, and the ocean's surface sent them back when they impinged upon it.

  41. Upward it struck, and the Mercurian ships on which it impinged disappeared in a flash of light.

  42. There come now and then moments in which a curious understanding is impinged upon one without loss of time in reason and surmise--and this was one of those moments for Philip.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impinged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.