loom

Example Sentences

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For Dalio, geopolitical trends indicate “a clash of great powers” is looming and in the scenario he imagines, investors should “sell out of all debt and buy gold.”

From MarketWatch

As a result, the threat of travel chaos still looms large in one important way.

From BBC

Then, one of the lights morphed into the looming shape of a helicopter, careening into view and growing larger.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here is the quintessential Westerner about to transform himself from Honest Abe the rail-splitter into Father Abraham, the avuncular statesman capable of handling the looming crisis over disunion and slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal

Traditionally produced in northern Ghana on narrow-strip looms, the fugu is widely treated as the west African country's national costume, worn at festivals, political events and -- increasingly -- in offices and public life.

From Barron's