look on
verb
looked on; looking on; looks on
: watch sense 3b
looked on anxiously from the sidelines
Examples of look on in a Sentence
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The look on her face shifted from fear and worry to surprise and relief.
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Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
In the beginning of the video, Lauren walks into a homecoming event arm-in-arm with another classmate, while Thomas Rhett looks on sadly in his football jersey.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
The sequence that follows, as Jack's daughter Alice (Lucy Cohu) powerlessly looks on, is one of the most haunting in TV history, as one of pop culture's big taboos — the on-screen death of a child — is broken before your eyes.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Lauren says the designers focused not just on how the outfit looked on its own, but the impact that several hundred of the uniforms seen together would have.
—Alice Park, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Mike and Joyce look on, speechless.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
Brown looked on to see what was left after the fire on Thanksgiving led to plumes of smoke billowing into the sky and a major portion of the church collapsing.
—Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025
To be able to understand matchups and planning at a high level and then to get to those looks on the fly in pressure situations.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Lando Norris of Great Britain and McLaren looks on in the pit lane during the F1 Grand Prix of Qatar.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
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Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
In the beginning of the video, Lauren walks into a homecoming event arm-in-arm with another classmate, while Thomas Rhett looks on sadly in his football jersey.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
The sequence that follows, as Jack's daughter Alice (Lucy Cohu) powerlessly looks on, is one of the most haunting in TV history, as one of pop culture's big taboos — the on-screen death of a child — is broken before your eyes.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Lauren says the designers focused not just on how the outfit looked on its own, but the impact that several hundred of the uniforms seen together would have.
—Alice Park, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Mike and Joyce look on, speechless.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
Brown looked on to see what was left after the fire on Thanksgiving led to plumes of smoke billowing into the sky and a major portion of the church collapsing.
—Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025
To be able to understand matchups and planning at a high level and then to get to those looks on the fly in pressure situations.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Lando Norris of Great Britain and McLaren looks on in the pit lane during the F1 Grand Prix of Qatar.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20on. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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