look through

phrasal verb

looked through; looking through; looks through

1

: to read or briefly examine some of the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.)

She was looking through a magazine as she waited in the doctor's office.

2

: to look at the different parts of (a collection or group of things)

I looked through all his letters.

3

: to place one's eyes so as to see through (something)

look through a telescope

4

: to pretend not to see or recognize (someone) in a rude or unfriendly way

We used to be best friends but when she passed me on the street yesterday she looked (right/straight) through me without even saying hello!

Examples of look through in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And think, if a TSA agent is looking through your luggage, your unmentionables won’t be on full display. —Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025

Plus, there are tons of 60-percent-off goodies to look through in the Really Big Deals section. —Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025

Browsing through the color swatches of Joybird is like looking through a kaleidoscope. —Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025

Nonetheless, after hearing the same witnesses, reading the same documents and looking through the same spreadsheets, the two of us came to vastly different conclusions. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for look through

• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup
• bijou