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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Bi modelled the monster after the way fetuses look on ultrasounds, at once aged and infantile, and had his designers make the Deliriant hunched over, bearing a tortoise-like shell on his back.
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Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Through the tired looks on the villagers and the realization of the loss that lingers between conversations.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
The group of four looked on as the Chiefs fell to the Texans, 20-10.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
What are your favourite looks on her this season?
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2025
The look on her face shifted from fear and worry to surprise and relief.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 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
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Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
Through the tired looks on the villagers and the realization of the loss that lingers between conversations.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
The group of four looked on as the Chiefs fell to the Texans, 20-10.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
What are your favourite looks on her this season?
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2025
The look on her face shifted from fear and worry to surprise and relief.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 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
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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20on. Accessed 16 Dec. 2025.
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