How to Use look up in a Sentence

look up

verb

• But things are looking up this year for the 1% of the 1%.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• In fact, look up at the top of this column, and — voila!
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The teenagers in your life may even look up from their phones.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• In the end, there was precious little time left to just look up.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Get outside, look up and lose yourself in the wonders of the night sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• At one point, Wren looks up at his mom and smiles widely.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 July 2023
• The child pushed his dad’s bathrobe aside to hug his legs, then looked up and asked where the other leg was.
  — Aaron Stern, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
• The youngsters who look up to him will have to keep straining those necks.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Just as things were looking up, there was a new growth two years ago.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
• To dress the look up entirely, The Row’s ‘Bare’ sandals in yellow will take the charge.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2023
• If a full trip isn’t in the cards for you, look up some areas for a day trip or solo hike.
  — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps above all, the book is a reminder to look up—and not to take that vista for granted.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• Once there, let your eyes adjust for about 20 minutes, then look up at the sky and wait.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Hale looks up to find Kyah hanging limp from the window blind’s pull cord.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
• That’s why guys like Jim Keltner and Ringo and all these guys looked up to Levon.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• Officers looked up to see an open window on the 17th floor of the building.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
• At night, my eyes look up to the stars and then stray along the mountain peaks, which are capped by snow and which the morning sun roasts at 6:30.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
• One night, my father looks up from my phone to ask, What is this Pizza Rat?
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• And if the health of the industry is measured in volume, things are looking up.
  — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• But in prison, players can’t just look up the game rules online.
  — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Anyone who wants to look up at the sun as the moon passes in front of it should invest in a pair of eclipse glasses.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• Things are looking up, and good energy is on its way to us.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Robins says at this point Felton gave him a strange look and told the author to look up his Wikipedia entry.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• Of course, Christopher is his own player, but he’s got a great one to look up to in Freddy.
  — Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• But look up the Dunlop Tires ad, though — that one is my favorite.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• The once-mighty Patriots are stuck at the bottom looking up at the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• The pup, his whiskers comically long for his face, looked up at me with wide black eyes.
  — Jessica Vincent, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• Despite the lean times, Torres said things are looking up.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• The couple heard the rumble, Francine said, and her first reaction was to walk outside to the backyard and look up.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Don’t stand directly under the tree and look up at the nest; that tends to make the adult eagles nervous, Sharpe said.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024