look around

idiom

: to go through a place in order to see what is there : to explore a place

We arrived early at the theater and spent a few minutes looking around.

The kids looked around the shops while we unpacked.

: to search (for something)

I looked around for my keys but I couldn't find them anywhere.

He is looking around for a new car.

Examples of look around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web People look around, alarmed or thrilled, as farmers try to take down their tents, or hold on to them. —

Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024 Take a look around: All photos courtesy of SkyCam Digital - Mario Bianco. —

Alexis Clinton, Axios, 9 July 2024 According to the tour agency, on July 3, two young members of an orca pod put on a grand and unexpected show for the whale watchers with playful jumping, tail slaps, and poking their heads out of the water to look around. —

Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024 Besides examining the overall structure and stellar population of the galaxy, Euclid can look around the object to search for much fainter satellite galaxies, dwarf companions common around big galaxies (our Milky Way has dozens of them, for example). —

Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for look around

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