A figure that loomed large in the half darkness leaped at the red devil.
Suddenly he loomed up in front of me like an express train, as you have seen them approach from the depths of a moving-picture screen, only ten times faster; and he was firing as he came.
As I approached, the hillloomed more and more steeply in front of me.
We walked towards a dense grove of pines above which loomed the sky, threateningly gray.
Obviously a part of the trench, I saw the wall of the house had been pierced to make a passage the same width of the ditch, and that in the far wall there loomed a similar passage doubtless leading down into the trench again.
On the broad landing of a wide marble staircase an orchestra played soldier songs and above the musicians, looking down on his people, loomed a bust of Wilhelm II, Von Gottes Gnaden, Kaiser von Deutschland.
Over to the right there," said a captain, pointing towards a clump of trees through which the ruins of cottages loomed dismally in the rain, "is a village which we had to shell because the French had a position there.
Off to the right loomed a long weather-beaten line of huge tents, one of which was open, showing the tail of a Taube monoplane.
Outside loomed the vague tops of trees, and the whiteness of a house accentuated against the dark night.
From the church we walked to a tall, gray stone, square-turreted building that loomed above everything in the village and passing through a wide archway we came into a court filled with drilling soldiers.
The mountains loomed like dim purple pillars at the western gate of the world, and the rays of the half-hidden sun plunging athwart these sentinels sank deep into the shining flood.
His cackle reached other groups, and out of the dark hulking figures loomed to listen or to throw in hot missiles of profanity.
His huge pack loomed over his shoulders, and as he walked, using two paddles as canes, he seemed some anomalous four-footed beast of burden.
A substantial structure now stood where Cartier had had his rude fort, and its two towers loomed up before the eyes of the Frenchmen.
La Pommeraye's vessel drove before the gale until the high cliffs of St John's harbour loomed up before her.
Matters were still in this state, and De Roberval showed no signs of relenting, when, early in the month of June, the rugged shores of Newfoundland loomed up before the grateful eyes of the crew.
Matters were in this state when the vessels passed up the Hochelaga, and the towering heights of Stadacona loomed up, majestic and strong, before them.
The terrible land of his exile loomed before him a frigid, an impregnable mass.
She had L6000 a year of her own; but her husband's debts loomed before her like a mountain.
The wide gates were open, and the vast floor, with its rows of empty stalls, loomed like a vault before us.
She loomed upon our horizon as the purveyor of corduroy trousers.
Scripture House loomed before him--long, dingy, grim in the gay sunshine.
Above it like a ghost of the historic beauty of the old Square, loomed the marble arch.
The semaphore on the mountain of the Pigeonnier was not visible; but across the bridge, where the Gunstett highway spanned the Sauer, gray masses of the Niederwald loomed through the rain.
Speed took the child by the hand, and together they entered the big white tent, which now loomed up like a mammoth mushroom against the blue sky.
The spot is up at that corner," pointing away up the hill, where the wood loomed darkly against the sky.
A dark figure in black overcoat and low felt hat loomed up in the darkness of the gateway, and entering the Yard glanced eagerly around.
In the distance loomed the tile roofs and tall chimneys of "Idle Times.
Bristow's place stood for too much of memory, and the inevitable questions of his friend loomed before him, as the trifle which a man who has stood much more than trifles cannot bring himself to face.
At that moment a tall figure, herculean in size, loomed out of the night and advanced hastily.
He put down his hammer and glanced out of the window, and suddenly Maudlin Bates loomed up, with all his hulking swagger obliterating the shoemaker's mental bliss.
The road was running with water, but they ploughed on, until through the trees the farmhouse loomedup darkly.
As I moved slowly towards the abandoned body of the tale it loomed up big amongst the glittering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding.
It loomed up dead to leeward like a lofty and irregular cone only a mile or a mile and a half distant.
His head and shoulders loomed up alongside and he had the appearance of standing upon the sea.
She must have carried some way on her yet, for she loomed up bigger and nearly abreast of where Lingard stood, before the self-possessed voice was heard again: "I will show you.
Then he loomed up shapeless on the rail, and the next moment disappeared as if he had fallen out of the universe.
Above it the top-hamper of the brig loomed indistinct and high.
For dead ahead of the craft had loomed suddenly a sinister, menacing object that had caused the wave of panic to sweep over the boys on the bridge of the motor boat.
I used to handle a boat once, but now I ain't fit for nothing but just night watchman at the grain elevator yonder," and he pointed to a towering structure that loomed against the dark sky.
Light on the port-bow, sir," reported one of the crew, as the feeble glimmer of a masthead and port lights loomed through the mirk.
He and his fellows now owned that great steamer which loomed there under the brooding heavens.
The huge Montana, set solidly into its bed of sand, loomed against the sky, mute witness of somebody's inefficiency or mistake.
A short half-mile away, a veritable ghost ship, loomedthe wrecked Conomo.
In a suit of natty gray, he loomed conspicuously in the alley outside the tug's pilot-house.
Suddenly, through the machinations of a rival, the ruler was tempted into evil courses, Ku Yuan was dismissed, and adversity loomed in the distance for the country.
And then filmy cloudsloomed up but a little above the rising plane, and Bell shot into them and straightened out for the south.
The boats ripped through the waters at terrific speed and in a few seconds there loomed before them the giant metal wall of the great dome, going down into the depths here.
A dusky ridge of birches loomed ahead, shutting off the steep dip to the river.
Steel came up with his binder before it was completed, a creak and thud and tinkle swelling in musical crescendo as the jaded team loomed nearer through the dust.
For my part I was thankful when a lonely log-house loomed up ahead and the wagon came to a standstill.
The sun had not cleared the grayness which veiled the east, and, frowned down upon by huge elevators which rose higher and higher against a lowering sky, the straggling townloomed up depressingly out of the surrounding desolation.
Then shadowy buildings loomed ahead, and, blundering up against a wire fence, we staggered, whitened all over, to the door of Bonaventure.
Then, as we topped one of its grassy waves, a cluster of distant cubes loomed up, and a glance at the watch's racing fingers warned me that I was already behind the time that the train was due to reach the settlement.
Presently a dense mass of blue-black clouds loomed suddenly over the brow of the cliffs.
Dim amid the fog and rain something which seemed like a great pale shadow loomed before the schooner.
The huge opal dome now known as Mount Baker loomed up through the clouds of dawn and dusk on the southern sky-line.
We pressed forward, conversing only in whispers, until in front of us a row of leafless willow trees loomed up out of the darkness.
Five hours ago Grinnell Land loomed in the distance, and we had little prospect of reaching it for some time.
Old Joe," as the men irreverently termed Cape Joseph Henry, loomed nearer and darker, and we all regarded it with anxious, longing eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loomed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fretted; interlaced; intertwined; interwoven; laced; plaited; raddled; textile; woven; wreathed
