Looming

I perceived an object looming through the mist.

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

"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.

It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep / from access of the winds, but looming vast / with awful ravage, AEtna's neighbouring steep / thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast / smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast. / Live balls of flame, with showers of sparks, upflew / and licked the stars, and in combustion massed, / torn rocks, her ragged entrails, molten new, / the rumbling mount belched forth from out the boiling stew.

Climate change and global warming are looming over the heads of Gen Zers, who will largely be the ones who will deal with the effects.

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.

Famine is looming in southern Madagascar and emergency food aid is needed for hundreds of thousands of people to head off a humanitarian disaster on the African island nation, the U.N. World Food Program warned.

Dark clouds are looming overhead.

The exam is looming.