look on

verb

looked on; looking on; looks on

intransitive verb

: watch sense 3b
looked on anxiously from the sidelines

Examples of look on in a Sentence

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Fans dressed as popes look on during the third inning of a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Monday, May 19, 2025. Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025 Jack Lang’s eulogy — beginning with a haunting photo (top) of Xana, waving a flag on a deserted pitch with her father looking on after his Barcelona side’s 2015 Champions League final victory — will do a good job of moving you to tears. Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 May 2025 Cellphone video showed one of the white cops, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes while the other officers looked on. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025 Peter, looking on, suddenly seems to remember his wife just may be a human being. Caroline Framke, Vulture, 23 May 2025 As her teammates and Royals players looked on, visibly shaken, King received treatment from trainers before she was stretchered off the field. Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1568, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of look on was circa 1568

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“Look on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20on. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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