look through

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

The drawings made by Ukrainian children affected by the war were offered to visitors to touch and look through while listening to recordings of their stories. —Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

While the crowd looks through their fingers. —Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026

The incident began when Le's 15-year-old sister woke up on the couch to find her sister looking through her phone, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, per Local 10 and NBC Miami. —Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026

Ives asks the writer to look through the wrong end of the telescope and recognize their own character. —David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026

Rhymes for look through

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