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How to use looming in a sentence

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Perhaps with an appeal looming, he was also entitled to stay his hand on much comment, anyway.
I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head.
With water levels in the dams receding and ever tighter water restrictions looming, very soon there may not be enough water to grow new trees.
The grey granite exterior is calculated to render the lodge almost invisible against the looming backdrop of the hill.
Yet she seemed to enjoying the thought of his largely built figure looming over her with his raven coloured eyes staring into hers.
There may be a significant tie-in here between the looming war with Iraq and the threats we're picking up in intelligence intercepts.
Porsche's sales were in free fall, and losses threatened it with a looming liquidity crisis.
I need time and unfortunately with more homework and coursework deadlines looming, I'm getting less and less.
Gradually the sound fades into the distance, looming all the while like an increasingly befogged Fall Of The House Of Usher.
However I had set myself a task to at least try to remove the old writer's block which had been looming over me.
He seemed a black lump looming over the desk like a vulture on a high tor, waiting for his prey to walk into his clutches.
The other side is dominated by a dark, looming mass which suggests torrents of water rushing upward.
The most significant difference from 2001 is the looming change in the leadership election rules bequeathed by the former leader.
Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin.
Clouds from the looming vase-shaped cooling towers blocked the sun, wires audibly sizzled with electricity, a conveyor belt rattled.
The downpour cooled off the searing heat but failed to ease the city's looming water shortage.
The U.S. economy continued to add jobs in November despite worries about a looming fiscal cliff in Washington.
Like the looming military campaign, few expect the legal fight to be short or easy.
But it may be too late, because conservatives don't want to be part of the looming train wreck.
But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that.
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With slow precision he set the servo fixes on the huge gray hulk looming up in the viewer, and then snapped the switches sharply.
After ten hours they saw the huge Jupiter Equilateral orbit-ship looming up in the viewscreen like a minor planet.
At the sight of Sophia, Riccardo rushed to her, looming over her protectively.
With a grinding roar, the motor struck the upgrade and came looming up the tunnel, filling it with its bulk.
Some of them tore down a side street, straight before the looming onrush.
The Home Galaxy was looming large when they next stopped for observation.
With test tube meat a looming possibility, even vegetarians may want to reconsider their options.
But after that he was afraid no more of the looming bulks of the tepees.
Do not see in my words the looming of a momentous sensation.
With harvest time looming, the Sitzmans will be too busy to do much spending just yet.
Alban's Head, with Portland looming mistily in the farthest distance.
The women heard it, and, looking anxiously out, saw, far in the rear, on the brow of a distant hill, a party of men looming up against the red-streaked sky of early dawn.
It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load.
The Brentano String Quartet, in contrast, seems to be sailing along quite harmoniously, with its 25th anniversary looming on the horizon two years from now.
Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy.
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