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Example sentences for "looming"

Lexicographically close words:
lookt; looky; lookye; loom; loomed; looms; loon; loons; loony; loop
  1. And Mr. Smallweed says it not without evident apprehensions of his dear friend, who still stands over him looming larger than ever.

  2. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy.

  3. Great, surging masses of purple vapor came in a mad rout from the dank west and gathered above the massive and looming mountains.

  4. A clammy air creeps round me, as from vaults Peopled with looming spectres, chilling me And angering you withal!

  5. Then, as he hunted, suddenly, silently, a vast bulk heaved into view, looming high and huge and black above the saplings and against the last red streak of the darkening sky.

  6. Only just in time the beset fox saw looming up before him the best hidden of all the fox fortresses in the Valley.

  7. With slow precision he set the servo fixes on the huge gray hulk looming up in the viewer, and then snapped the switches sharply.

  8. He scowled at the great gray ship, looming closer and closer.

  9. All seems quiet on shore," said Clif, after a time, to the lieutenant, as they both peered forward at the coast line now looming up before them.

  10. He had not gone many boat lengths from shore before he discovered looming up before him a slowly moving steamer.

  11. And there is that horrid Geological address looming in the future!

  12. There is an address at Birmingham in the autumn looming large, and ghosts of unfinished work flitter threateningly.

  13. I followed his eyes, and where one horn of the white crescent faded into the mist, caught a dark shadow in the air, and knew it was high land looming behind.

  14. It had vanished almost before it was seen, and yet we knew there was no mistake; it was the Snout that was there looming behind the moving rack, and we were in Moonfleet Bay.

  15. For though they went on and on, they did not see the black ungainly form of Bruin looming up before them.

  16. La Colorado," he said, indicating what the Americans at length made out to be a frame house, looming above the high grass.

  17. And seen some far land looming blue, My heart will not play free.

  18. While his father still spoke hopefully of the possibility that the boy might have found a hiding place which he dared not leave, Jeremy could only remember the frightful, scarred visage of Pharaoh Daggs looming in the torchlight.

  19. Once or twice he stumbled over fallen logs or tripped in the rocks, but he held on upward till the trees thinned and he felt that the looming shape of the ledge was just in front.

  20. The long-anticipated battle for the Shepherds' Trophy was looming close; soon everything that hung upon the issue of that struggle would be decided finally.

  21. At midnight he arose, a mad, desperate plan looming through his fuddled brain.

  22. She looked up at Lady Crowborough, looming profusely above her, out of untroubled blue eyes.

  23. They were sitting on the lawn in view of the Castle, looming above them.

  24. An uproar broke out as he ran through an open gate with the dark buildings and the lumber stacks looming in front.

  25. Then a blue light flared up and showed us other boats, and only half the wreck left, looming black amid spouting foam.

  26. And I knew also the Fear that stood in the way: him I had seen in a myriad of forms, looming black by darkness in every lane I trod; and yet with what defiance I met and slew him!

  27. Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range.

  28. At the bend Joan saw a stage-coach and horses looming up in what seemed gray distance.

  29. After that for Joan time might have consisted of moments or hours, each of which was marked by Kells looming over her.

  30. A hundred times she imagined she saw him looming darker than the shadows.

  31. And still the yacht continued to drift, with the land looming higher and the threatening roar of the surf on the reef growing louder every minute.

  32. For the next three or four hours heavy squalls were encountered, but midnight showed a clear sky, with the opaque mass of Maui, looming darkly, abeam to starboard.

  33. They descended the rise and, reaching the flat, discerned the gaunt walls of the old inn looming spectrally from the mist.

  34. But presently it was visible once more, looming out in increasing clearness, with a ghostly glimmering of the grey waters of the North Sea heaving turbulently outside.

  35. Cousin Titcomb had brought her there and driven away, concerned that he must leave her in a cold kitchen, and only deterred by a looming horse-trade from staying to build a fire.

  36. The Flat-Iron Lot was a triangular piece of ground, rich in drooping elms, and otherwise varied only by a great boulder looming up within the wall nearest the church.

  37. Beyond the sweeping meadows The looming mountains rise, Like battlements of dreamland Against the brooding skies.

  38. Turret and spire and roof Looming out of the sea, Where the prosy chart gives proof No cape nor isle can be!

  39. Stirling sensed the true direction with the skill of a master pilot and dodged looming ice floes by fathoms.

  40. Raising his bare head, he glanced toward the island, with its looming shadows and rocky walls.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    approaching; brewing; close; coming; forthcoming; future; immediate; imminent; impending; instant; looming; lowering; lurking; menacing; mirage; near; nearing; overhanging; threatening; upcoming; waiting