Loom

//lum//

"Loom" in a Sentence (18 examples)

After I tried out my new loom, I made my bed and repaired the coffee grinder.

Many good grades will loom on the horizon.

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.

I just saw it go through the loom; it passed in the blink of an eye. What is it ? It's the light.

They planted cotton on a small piece of land, raised it, gathered it, and removed the seeds by hand, and having obtained a card, spinning wheel, and loom, my late grandmother would draw out the cotton and spin it into rolls.

Real kente cloth is weaved on a loom in strips about six inches wide and then sewn together.

When I'm weaving narrow bands, I use a table top inkle loom.

For instance, the sound of -u — described in the phrase, “like -u in ‘plural’” — may well be pronounced like -oo in ‘good’ or in ‘loom’ but not like -u in ‘stutter’ or in French ‘lune.’

The Kabyle loom is very old.

Show 8 more sentences

heirloom, workloom

January 8, 1751, Samuel Johnson, "The Mischiefs of Total Idleness" in The Rambler Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.

The clouds loomed over the mountains.

[…] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, ⁠And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

With no extra-time to be played and penalties looming, the Portuguese winger pounced on some hesitant City defending to run on to a Wayne Rooney clearance, round Joe Hart and slot home.

In the meantime, SWR staff have warned privately that an acute shortage of rolling stock is looming, because the new trains are not ready.

The incident erupted as tensions simmered over Donald Trump’s looming takeover of DC and his administration’s use of force to brutally achieve his anti-migrant agenda.

On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: loom