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Example sentences for "bright look"

  • Mr Futlock jumped into the boat, and pulled towards the tubs which were first seen, we meantime keeping a bright look-out for any more which might be floating near.

  • We had to keep a bright look-out not to miss the islands.

  • As I was saying, we had been keeping a bright look-out, even before we struck soundings, both day and night.

  • It may be supposed that we had been keeping a bright look-out for the French fleet, and when daylight broke we saw it coming up very fast, formed in three divisions.

  • The captain told the mates to keep a bright look-out, and if they saw lightning at the south-west, to take in sail at once.

  • We consequently kept a bright look-out, in the hopes of falling in with a ship worth capturing.

  • You will see the top of the ould Castle before long if you keep a bright look-out, and a hearty welcome we'll be after getting when they see us all arrive in this dignified way--just like a great foreign ambassador going to court.

  • A bright look-out had been kept all day, so that there was no risk of the expected prize having made her escape.

  • We had better keep a bright look-out," continued I; "those savages may prove more venturesome in the darkness than we chose this morning to believe possible.

  • Sprawl, "We must keep a bright look-out here, Brail, at any rate.

  • We bowled along for half-an-hour, keeping a bright look-out for the frigate, but we could see nothing of her.

  • I could not venture to shut my eyes if I didn't feel sure that you would keep a bright look-out.

  • A bright look-out was kept aloft, from the first break of day until darkness covered the face of the deep, for any dhows sailing northward, but day after day passed by and none were seen.

  • A bright look-out was kept, but no strangers were seen.

  • A bright look-out was kept from the mast-head from sunrise to sunset, and occasionally when a strange sail was seen, as soon as it was ascertained in what direction she was steering, the course was changed to avoid her.

  • A bright look-out was kept for their spouts as the monsters rose to the surface to breathe.

  • The captain, as he went his rounds, charged the sentries to keep a bright look-out.

  • There were several open parts, where, had the Zulus been keeping a bright look-out, I must have been seen, although they might have taken me for a jackal or a lion.

  • A bright look-out was kept for her, and happily, on the evening of the 19th of June, when the squadron was within a few leagues of Port Saint Julien, the missing ship was sighted.

  • A bright look-out was kept in the fore-top for shoals which might be ahead, while the pilots hove the lead, but found no bottom.

  • The Desire and Content, therefore, beat up and down off the headland of California, a bright look-out being kept for their expected prize.

  • Solon was no more pleased with this state of things than I was, and as he walked up and down with me he kept a bright look out on every side, frequently peering forward into the darkness and giving a low dissatisfied growl.

  • Keep a bright look out, my lads," said I.

  • The Chinamen kept a bright look-out, and seemed terribly afraid of the pirates.

  • I was almost asleep before I sank down on the blanket, only just hearing him say, "We must keep a bright look-out ahead, for we ought soon to be making the land.

  • A bright look-out was kept for land, but no land appeared.

  • We searched about, and kept a bright look-out for her, but in vain.

  • On and on, keeping everywhere a bright look-out against surprise.

  • I therefore contented myself by calling upon the hands forward, from time to time, to keep a bright look-out, and flung myself into a basket-chair belonging to the skipper.

  • And I'll also tell all the others on the Coast to keep a bright look-out for the brigantine.

  • Telegraph the man at the Tiger-trap station to keep a bright look-out, and direct the gunner to keep the battery manned day and night!

  • Both vessels were making great speed, and long before sunset we had been keeping a bright look-out for the land.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bright look" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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