Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looks on
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The last week of March heads into April with one of the most important sci-fi franchises of all time, plus a French drama that looks cool and the latest John Wick flick.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Black versions feel especially edgy yet still have a lightness that looks amazing with skinny pants.—
Alex Sales,
Glamour,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Washington stares blankly at the ceiling, over and over.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
18 Mar. 2026
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Tuxedoed servers wear playing-card pins on their lapels; a slot machine in the entryway shaped like a life-size Doc Holliday gazes at diners with uncanny intensity.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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Curving around the glistening, glacial Sarmiento Lake, an amphitheater of rooms gazes up at the Paine massif, with scenes constantly shifting depending on the time of day.—
Sarah Marshall,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Hubble captures crisp, long-term visible-light views of Saturn's cloud bands and atmospheric changes, while the JWST peers deeper into the planet's atmosphere in infrared, revealing heat patterns and structures hidden beneath the upper cloud layers.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Ask for an oceanview table that peers out onto your anchored ship.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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My eleven-year-old self rolls her eyes, glares at my thirty-six-year-old body, and silently calls me fat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Straitjacketed inside the inescapable present, Pearl gapes up to discover that her husband, Walker, has found her; Walker was always going to find her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Looks on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looks%20on. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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