5 sentences with 'loomed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word loomed and other words derived from it.
• « As political chaos descended on Russia and the possibility of a large-scale defeat by Germany loomed, the Bolsheviks had their chance to seize power. »
• « However, as German defeat loomed, military leaders Hindenburg and Ludendorff, along with the Kaiser himself, concocted the idea that Germany could have fought on and won, but instead public commitment to the war faltered due to agitators on the home front and saboteurs who crippled military supply lines. »
• « The great communist powers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the People's Republic of China loomed over a vast swathe of Eurasia, while smaller countries occasionally erupted in revolution. »
• « As World War II loomed in 1939, the British even tried to restrict Jewish immigration to avoid alienating the Arab majority in the Palestinian region. »
• « As there were no human remains, it is assumed that the inhabitants fled when the catastrophe loomed. »