Two dark, jagged peaks loomed above them through the darkness.

It doesn't seem possible that the term is nearly over," said Anne. "Why, last fall it seemed so long to look forward to--a whole winter of studies and classes. And here we are, with the exams looming up next week."

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

Few people weave their own fabric on a loom these days.

The fleet was on mid ocean; land no more / was visible, naught else above, before / but sky and sea, when overhead did loom / a storm-cloud, black as heaven itself, that bore / dark night and wintry tempest in its womb, / and all the waves grew rough and shuddered with the gloom.

She stood looming down at him, attacking him for indolence and irreverence, blasphemy and ignorance, while waving her umbrella.

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.

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.

I perceived an object looming through the mist.

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