loomed

He was the larger-than-the-life figure, and he loomed impossibly large over this campaign.

All three loomed large, and all were entangled as the United States was being created.

He resigned his seat two weeks later as a criminal indictment loomed.

He loomed like a god above us, as much a presence as any deity, and God knows he was accepted as such.

This is better than the Cold War when nuclear war loomed, but it is still sinister.

Neither of us spoke again, and at length the squat log buildings of Pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night.

There was another personality that loomed large, in those years, on the Midland—Samuel Swarbrick, the accountant.

They were soon out-distanced, the palm-trees fell away, the soaring temple loomed against the blazing sky.

The one thing that loomed big in my mind's eye was the monstrous injustice of the accusation.

A horse or a tree or a clump of brush loomed up grotesquely in the vaporous blur.