Synonyms of peering

peering

verb

present participle of peer

as in staring

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise

visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank

Synonyms & Similar Words

• staring
• gazing
• gawking
• gaping
• goggling
• glaring
• gawping
• blinking
• rubbernecking
• watching
• glowering
• leering
• gloating
• eyeing
• fixating
• ogling
• perusing
• observing
• studying
• considering
• regarding
• staring down
• poring (over)
• outfacing
• outstaring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• glancing
• peeking
• peeping
• scanning
• browsing
• glimpsing
• dipping (into)
• winking (at)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of peering

On a recent Thursday afternoon, an optometrist named Marina Su was peering into the eyes of Martha Infante, a forty-one-year-old mother and kitchen designer. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026

Surveying the world from the cab of a Hummer EV feels like peering out from a fortress turret. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 12 Aug. 2026

All the while the fMRI churned on, peering through the dogs’ skulls into the brain below and looking for the areas that lit up as a result of the visual stimuli. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Someone moving between homes, peering through windows and carrying a large knife, CNN affiliate KSDK reported. — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

At times, he was seen doing stretches, eating food, peering out the windows with binoculars and listening to music with headphones. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

People mill around, peering into the Jeep, captured by a shaky camera that someone is streaming live to Instagram. — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026

About an hour and a half later, while peering over police tape blocking off the road in front of the campus, Kelly-Tuason lamented the violence that rattled the school and the surrounding neighborhood. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 July 2026

An early work of this nature, Black Girl’s Window, 1969, shows a silhouetted figure peering from a window, its panes above her occupied by various symbols meaningful to the artist. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 July 2026