Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looked on
Verb
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Here was an artist who had stared death in the face and lived to write reasonably well about it.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025 -
Kerkering stared straight ahead.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The new research puts that mystery to rest and can help paleontologists find, recognize and analyze future mummy finds for tiny clues into how giant dinosaurs really looked.—
Amanda Schupak,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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On glam, Kardashian looked to Dimitris Giannetos for her sophisticated slickback bun, with bronzed makeup, and long black talon nails.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the photo’s bottom‑left corner, a child pressed to someone’s chest gazed directly at the viewer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Who among us has not gazed at the stars and marveled at how our eyes are absorbing light that traveled thousands of years to reach us?—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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At the door, a man in a shiny blue suit and eyeglasses forged from some fragile-looking but probably indestructible mineral whose extraction shapes contemporary geoeconomics said hello, peered over my shoulder.—
Sam Lipsyte,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her window peered south toward a dark sea.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Drilling for progress As the rest of us gawked at Maye’s pinpoint accuracy on his 55-yard completion to Rhamondre Stevenson in the third quarter of last Sunday’s win — the longest of his career — Maye’s position coach smiled for a different reason.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
19 Sep. 2025
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Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling.—
Jen Rose Smith,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Some stuffing gaped out of the rips on the back.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Many of them took to the roads and rails, freaking out elite and middle-class white Protestants, who generally viewed married, settled life as the foundation of a successful society.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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The United States’s defeat of Péralte’s opposition, called the Cacos rebellion, was widely viewed by Haitians as having upended the Haitian revolutionary principles of freedom and independence upon which their country was founded while encouraging rule by force.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In her practice, Palazzolo focuses heavily on industrial materials as a way of turning things perceived as artless or overtly masculine on their head.—
Mario Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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This is because white is generally reserved for the bride, so a guest wearing that color may be perceived as attention-seeking or inappropriate.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Looked on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looked%20on. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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