How to Use impinge in a Sentence

impinge

verb

• But the tank does impinge on the front passenger’s work boots a bit.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• Soon tall cliffs of ice are towering above the impinging waves.
  — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2016
• Values in this sense are prior to facts, while facts impinge on our values from the outside.
  — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• Evan Williams The sloping rear can impinge on headroom for some.
  — Evan Williams, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
• There’s so many factors that can impinge upon the expression of that bond.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Memories, both fresh and long-held, impinge on the present of our main characters.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
• Projects often impinge on indigenous lands, which can slow things down further.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Our citizens deserve to know why these global threats matter and impinge on our very way of life.
  — Roger Wicker, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• Once installed, a child seat impinges on only the last iota of front-seat travel for taller drivers.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
• Someone might feel their time impinged upon by their boss’s time, or a mother by her family’s time.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• To be fair, the gentleman in the middle seat next to me did his best to not impinge on his neighbors, and the flight was fine.
  — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• The flames impinged on a nearby building, but the building did not catch fire, the fire department said.
  — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
• This is not the first time that New Boise has impinged on Dudley’s livelihood.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 13 Apr. 2018
• In one sense, Madrid’s poor domestic form shouldn’t impinge on its hopes in Europe.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• The justices also said that since Elster was still free to use the phrase, his free speech rights were not impinged upon.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• When the immigrants from other countries impinge themselves on us.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• Gun rights advocates say the law impinges on Second Amendment rights and lacks due process.
  — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2019
• Smells like wool, leather, animal soap and petrichor—the bloom of rocks after rain—rarely impinge, either.
  — Sam Kean, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• One is nothing more than a money laundering scheme, and the other impinges upon an open, fair and free market.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
• In the memo, Shah said employees should be prepared to work longer hours and not be afraid to let work impinge on their personal lives.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
• County rules prohibit buildings from impinging on a public right of way, the letter says.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• A lot of rank-and-file voters will take notice when big brands speak out against measures that impinge on Americans’ right to vote.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Apr. 2021
• Hua said in answer to a question about whether China’s military drill would impinge on those waters.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Claire also collects about 25 percent of the stray light from outside its field of view, which impinges on its detector.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• If used en masse and with facial recognition software, this could impinge on First and Fourth amendment rights.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
• But his surgeon wondered whether the culprit was a bone spur that was seen on an MRI impinging on a nerve.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2017
• His character is an avatar for the austere religion that threatens to impinge on the wildness that reigns at the Heights.
  — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
• And presently, definitely, magically, a thin silver stain began to form in the tube where the flame impinged on it.
  — Deborah Blum, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2013
• But otherwise, no Apple CarPlay, no podcasts, and no driver aids impinged on my true blast from the past.
  — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• The next step was for people to use it in the real world, but the messiness of nature had a way of impinging on the purity of Takens’ math.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2015