Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking on
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Below-average play is often staring you right in the face while catastrophe lurks around the corner.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026 -
The face in question, below, involves Sherman staring with her mouth agape.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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If star-gazing and vintage glamping sound dreamy, head to Camp Kettlewood.—
Sarah Miller,
Midwest Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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By day, visitors can hike, cycle, and view ancient petroglyphs left behind by the area's Indigenous Northern Paiute people, before spending the night gazing up at the twinkling canopy.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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Prettygarden Oversized Lantern-Sleeve Cardigan This supremely fuzzy oversized cardigan features outfit-elevating lantern sleeves and cool-looking reverse seams that run along the shoulders and arms.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
15 Jan. 2026
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Zheng is looking forward to collaborating with more entrepreneurs like her, to continue investing in women's healthcare in the Bay Area.—
Sooji Nam,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Partly in response to losing the Tower Theater and other venues closing down, Colom launched a project called CineMovil, a mobile cinema that stops in different neighborhoods in order to try to fill the gaping hole left by the theater’s closure.—
Daniel Rivero,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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The footage shows the fish start to swim faster and more erratically when a large whale suddenly breaks through the school of fish with its gaping maw.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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Here, astronomers are gawking at a radio signal that appears crudely on the screen like a crooked game of Pong but turns out to be a line of data repeated every 78 seconds from 600 light-years away.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the cringe-comedy antics of the original NBC series landed far better in Season 3 than in Season 1, once audiences began to truly love the characters instead of just gawking at them.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Even at the entry level, the disparity is glaring.—
Nafees Alam,
Boston Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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When state media broadcasts funerals for fighters killed in Syria or Yemen while Iran’s hospitals lack basic supplies, the disconnect between rhetoric and reality becomes glaring.—
Kamran Talattof,
The Conversation,
6 Jan. 2026
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Antonio Alcalá, an art director for the postal service's stamp development program, designed the stamps, which features a 1974, black-and-white Associated Press image of the boxer focusing with his gloves upright, peering into the lens.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
14 Jan. 2026
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In a July 2025 post celebrating her birthday, Bündchen shared an adorable photo of her and her son peering onto a waterfall together.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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The goggles act as both a viewing interface and a recording device.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
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Thomas Jefferson, as secretary of state, passionately advocated honoring the treaty, viewing it as a debt of gratitude to a nation that shared republican ideals and had sacrificed much for American liberty.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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