Sentence examples for at a loom from inspiring English sources

Blavatsky at a loom.

In one, a lady sits, rather loftily, at a loom; in another, a woman prepares tortillas.

They are depicted loading boats with manure, weaving at a loom, picking vegetables and working in an enamel factory.

His outrage begins with the exploitative 19th-century textile mills of New England, where bosses required their hands to stand at a loom from dawn to dusk and then claimed these long hours were actually beneficial.

The nomadic Kuchi herders who adopt his family in Samangan teach him the value of literacy, and the Turkmen carpet weavers he meets in Mazar instill a love for working at a loom.

One of her husband's tricks, for the ancient equivalent of a photo opportunity, was to have her pose at a loom in the front hall of the palace – making her look like the perfect Roman wife.

Feeling despair at a looming deadline?

Any news of dissipating oil hints at a looming end to that.

Hinting at a looming economic adjustment that may accompany the spate of takeovers, however, he also spoke of subsidized gasoline, a generally taboo subject in his government.

If he chooses to film his main location, the orphanage of the title, from somewhere around rosebush level, craning upward to catch it at a looming angle, and so to conjure memories of the Bates house in "Psycho," well, good for him.

From Ferguson to Hong Kong, recent protest movements and general unrest hint at a looming class warfare that no one wants to talk about.