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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:

Beyond it loomed another, only slightly less massive, but far more eroded.

Around the house a mass of trees and shrubbery loomed dark and forbidding.

The face of David, sallow and ghastly, loomed upon her in the darkness.

On a double frame loom, a set of parallel threads was strung lengthwise.

Back of these loomed the shadow of a long term in the penitentiary.

It loomed almost tragically in its significance in the presence of this man.

I have seen the gallows looming before me for the last three months.

A form, looming up even in the darkness, showed on the garret stairs.

The great walls of the opposite side of the canyon loomed appreciably closer.

The hatred which she nourished was directed against the power loom.

Something dark loomed up before him, amid the wall of white, swirling flakes.

At the weavers' looms he was "all eyes and ears," as one remarked.

Diagonally across the street loomed a large, modern apartment house of familiar design.

Murderers armed with magnets loomed on the popular imagination like a new microbe.

On a double frame loom, a set of parallel threads was strung lengthwise.

It was mid-afternoon, and the smoking mountain peak still loomed far above them.

At the same time, the coastline loomed up through the fog to starboard.

Ah, how beautiful the vision that looms up as I contemplate these things!

Far in the distance a great wall loomed skyward to a terrific height.

To their right the statue of Achilles loomed grimly on its deserted hillock.

How grandly the mountains and glaciers of Greenland loomed up on our right!

The hill loomed ahead of them like a giant blot against the sky.

Even the seminary did not loom up until they were nearly upon it.

Suddenly, vague and ghostly, the old cairn rose before them again, looming mountainous.

Ahead of us loomed the rugged, precipitous ascent of the valley's upper end.

Now a silk hat and a satin necktie loom up in the throng.

Loomed the figure of a rider topping the heaving backs of his herd.

All the walls turned pale and steely and the bridge loomed dark.

Frames of looms for stringing the woof for weaving belts and garters.

Over it loomed darkly the mountain whose peak was so often shrouded in clouds.

A harness is a framework on a loom used for raising certain warp threads.

As I approached, the hill loomed more and more steeply in front of me.

The muffled roar of the loom room came to his ears, and he smiled.

The broad swarthy face loomed like a menace in the uncertain light before us.

For the looming shape was a huge earthen image or statue of a worm!

A needed part of the supply of woolen cloth is woven on marginal looms.

Self looms so large; the self that will intrude into every question.

I am weaving, and the wool may become snarled if I leave my loom.

It loomed up in front of him like a gaunt specter day and night.

He saw the loom put away, and ribbons supplant the cotton frock.

While the looms pounded in the dwellings the little maidens grew apace.

A dark shape loomed through the darkness almost athwart the Calder's track.

The opportunities the theater held for him suddenly loomed vast before Vane.

The low roofed houses are smothered in a thickening loom of woods and sky.

A wall of water and wreckage loomed up before him like a roaring cloud.

At the back of the Citadel distant mountains loomed, blue, indistinct, mysterious.

Another hundred yards, and a dark bulk loomed through the whirling snow.

Between him and the lighted tent loomed suddenly an unmistakably lanky figure.

And a burly form loomed in the darkness with a mace raised to strike.

The hall loomed massive and somber despite the modernity of electric lights.

The rounded citadel building, stone built, loopholed for rifles, loomed before them.

The vast colossus loomed stark white and naked in the brilliant sunlight.

A few moments more, and the loom of an iceberg appeared in our course.

And she scuttled back to her looms as the room boss came in.

A great dark cliff loomed out upon the left, jagged, inhospitable, and menacing.

Whole paragraphs, that had read quite reasonably before, now loomed ludicrous in perspective.

Then old 'Liza loomed up in the arbor door, darkening out the light.

High warp looms have been known in Europe certainly since the ninth century.

The honeymoon over, the racket of the loom began again on the Monday.

As the docks loomed up, the evidences of the bombardment became distinctly visible.

Now it was a huge looming darkness, through which his eyes vainly strained.

Then they brought in Sandy, looming up like a tower between the warders.

Jacquard's apparatus is, strictly speaking, not a loom, but an appendage to one.

Long shadows, like spectral mourners, robed in purple, loomed before the tiny procession.

Proceeding along the ridge, a clump of trees loomed large close at hand.

The islands loomed big as we drew nearer, dark in the thickening darkness.

Now that the meeting loomed so imminent all her courage was oozing away.

And if the gallows at the end always loomed over them what then?

After a few minutes, two or three indistinct objects loomed in the mist.

The looms were deserted: there was not a workman occupied inside the factory.

In the midst of the darkness roundabout it must have loomed up like a lighthouse.

In front loomed greater steeps, with gloomy malevolence in every seam and scar.

Upward heave the eastern ridges; above them looms a white rank of peaks.

Then some bushes loomed ahead, and the little skunk found himself suddenly alone.

Drums on the line shafts drive the loom pulleys by means of straps.

The desert began to loom to Adam as a region inimical to comfort and culture.

At this point I must face an avowal which I have long seen looming ahead.

Seraglio Point loomed ahead of us, high, rugged, tree-covered, dotted with infrequent lights.

And he is well clad in clothes, the product of the factory loom.

The honeymoon over, the racket of the loom began again on the Monday.

Even after I shut the door she loomed up enormous, indistinctly rigid and inanimate.

There to starboard, not more than five hundred feet away, loomed a giant cruiser.

A hail challenged them from the darkness, and a towering outline loomed familiarly ahead.

From the grave of the fallen hero a double specter began to loom up.

Dark and looming shapes of overland freight carriers filled the parking lot.

The tall trees that shut off the sky loomed loftily through it.

Through the tangle of vines and saplings a huge head loomed above the party.

The terrible land of his exile loomed before him a frigid, an impregnable mass.

Suddenly a massive post, crowned by a triangle, loomed out on our starboard bow.

It means the thread used in a loom for the warp or strong threads.

The market value of a loom of this character is said to be about five rupees.

The oars were of the old type, square loomed, with a button nailed on.

He panted, crouching under the loom, quivering with exhaustion, wild-eyed with fear.

Bushes and shrubs formed a narrow border, beyond which giant evergreens loomed.

Across the autumnal fields the smoke and flame of squalid Pompey loomed strangely.

The moistened threads must, however, be dried before they reach the loom beam.

The warping is stretching the parallel threads on the loom, preparatory to weaving.

Out of much that was unintelligible, the last statement loomed clear and incontrovertible.

War with the South or secession was vaguely looming up in the distance.

This man loomed over her, huge, somehow monstrous in his brawny uncouth presence.