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Use loom in a sentence

Definition of loom:

  • (noun) a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
  • (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly; "Another air plane loomed into the sky"
  • (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position;
  • (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing

Sentence Examples:

The big plane loomed like a shadow above them.

Other dim forms loomed up in the dust ahead.

Farther off loomed the outline of a large barn.

The address is beginning to loom in the distance.

Then he began to move nervously about the loom.

A spot of light loomed up through the fog.

Now a bright light loomed up in the distance.

See how plainly they loom up in the picture?

Then a large person loomed out of the distance.

Presently a low rubble of masonry loomed before them.

A great gray mountain shape looms up before us.

Now it loomed up before her with renewed force.

Wilson when he first loomed as a presidential possibility.

Suddenly there loomed up before them a great mass.

Another figure at that moment loomed in the gloom.

The ordeal loomed of a plain talk with Mortimer.

There loomed silently and swiftly the Laughing Lass.

Rebellion, civil warfare loomed with all its horrors.

She worked the loom and the spinning wheel.

Strangely loom the ch?lets through the semi-solid whiteness.

The spy question was looming large those days.

She saw his tall form looming before her.

Hamilton Burton with his following looms too large.

The great loom had not swept him in.

Had a loom to weave on and a spinning wheel.

Collins now loomed as a figure not to be disregarded.

Moses, intently watching the work in the looms.

The looms interested him the most of all.

Now the liberty pole loomed up half a mile ahead.

The looming figure moved closer and stared down.

The huge, dark prison looms in the distance.

Something loomed up out of the darkness to meet him.

A door loomed before them and he cautiously tried it.

Two armed soldiers loomed up ahead, one on each side.

The voice said, and a figure loomed up before them.

There they are, looming large against the fog.

Then Ballard shifts the threads in the loom.

Sunday loomed larger and larger, closer and closer.

Looming, appearing darkly and dimly in the distance.

Only to the occasional eye did he loom a hero.

Before me loomed the prodigious bulk of my home hill.

There's fearful peril looming ahead, unless I'm mistaken.

Distant little flat islands loomed through the mist.

Then several figures loomed up, entering the camp.

Johnson loomed no longer as a sinister figure of fate.

Soon there loomed up a definite form on the horizon.

School loomed ahead, but we hardly gave it a thought.

A dark conspiracy seemed to loom up in the background.

The bluff bank loomed big against the sky.

And yell if you see a mountain peak looming up.

The Fourth was seen looming through the mist.

Bradshaw had looms constructed on the improved principle.

Looming down on them stood the great horse.

It loomed up in my child's imagination as something filthy.

That one loomed, naturally and immediately, immensely large.

Narrow-eyed, Burke studied the looming bulk a moment.

Farther in the distance the Colosseum looms up.

The holidays at home loomed as a harbor of refuge.

This poor old woman lives by her loom.

Their bodies loomed up through it, wonderful and strange.

Lowell had spoken of the "roaring loom of time."

How big and dark it looms up at night!

It loomed strangely raw and white in the moonlight.

He stood beside her, looming large in the gloom.

And behind it all there loomed a new terror.

Out of the darkness loomed her father's great figure.

The weaving is done by girls on hand looms.

On the contrary, all loomed up strange and peculiar.

The future I see looming, and not far off.

Blue-lighted, brilliant, the opening loomed larger as we approached.

The cloth structure is firmly made in the loom.

A stout variety, ornamented in the loom with figures.

Half a dozen men are still at their looms.

The water jump loomed in front a formidable obstacle.

And the red wall began to loom above Sloan.

Baker loomed suddenly in the lights of the car.

A cylindrical building, unexpected in this wilderness, loomed up.

Abruptly shapes loomed in the misty light before them!

Difficulties that loomed large overnight were now vague shadows.

They saw a royal throne looming up for America.

I found the old woman alone, at her loom.

Great firs and pines loomed up on all sides.

Not one figure, but three loomed in the doorway!

I can see the end of things looming already.

Flannel, and even blankets, were manufactured on these looms.

Land loomed to the west and south of us.

Its attendant villages loomed up around the whole horizon.

The woods beyond the hill loomed like a wall.

The bush and the lodge boat loomed directly ahead.

Looms went away and he did not come back.

Then the Twins loomed up hugely in the dusk.

And yet at the time his offenses loomed enormous.

These looms are most curious, and likewise extremely primitive.

The old Messianic hope looms up big before me.

Germany loomed large on the political horizon in 1908.

Over in the distance the baseball stand loomed darkly.

The picture glared at him, it loomed suddenly symbolic.

The finished fabric is marketed in its loom state.

All fabrics wrought in the loom are called textiles.

It was now plain that there was serious trouble looming ahead.