Dark clouds are looming overhead.

It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep / from access of the winds, but looming vast / with awful ravage, AEtna's neighbouring steep / thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast / smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast. / Live balls of flame, with showers of sparks, upflew / and licked the stars, and in combustion massed, / torn rocks, her ragged entrails, molten new, / the rumbling mount belched forth from out the boiling stew.

Dread shapes and forms terrific loomed in sight, / and hostile deities, whose faces frowned / destruction.

Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye. It was hard to believe that these were the same walls which loomed so gloomily through the fogs of winter.

Famine is looming in southern Madagascar and emergency food aid is needed for hundreds of thousands of people to head off a humanitarian disaster on the African island nation, the U.N. World Food Program warned.

German virologists—working with the country’s public and private sectors —were able to respond rapidly in January to the looming threat of coronavirus by developing one of the first reliable methods for COVID-19 testing.

The impending examination loomed large in her mind.

Before long there loomed a development which no one had taken into consideration.

I perceived an object looming through the mist.

A shortage of animal feed is also looming after damage to maize crops and grass.