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Example sentences for "gazed upon"

  • And all the thousand thousand faces melted though the fiery eyes still gazed upon us.

  • For as we gazed upon a face it would melt, even to the eyes, and round these same eyes again would gather but no more the same.

  • Did you not observe how the King betrayed his liking by the tender manner in which he gazed upon her, and how thin he has become the last few days, as if he had been lying awake thinking of her?

  • He had been beneath an Indian sun, where the impulses of the heart are fervid as the clime, and where, when the sun is gazed upon, its influence is acknowledged.

  • I gazed upon my antagonist, he gazed upon me.

  • He gazed upon it in dumb amazement, for the light revealed the pictured face of Valerie Dedieu!

  • Holding it up to the light, he gazed upon it with a curious smile of gratification at having the poison in his possession.

  • As she stood before him in the subdued light he gazed upon her in hesitation.

  • As he gazed upon her he knew in his heart that with his thanks love had mingled too.

  • In the spring he gazed upon "the festoons of the wistaria, fine to see as purple clouds.

  • As he gazed upon them he realised that they were not the children of this world.

  • It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it.

  • Now he gazed upon it in unspeakable remorse,--in tenderest desire to atone, .

  • It was a scene Theos was destined never to forget, and he gazed upon it as one gazes on a magnificently painted picture, wherein two central figures fascinate and most profoundly impress the beholder's imagination.

  • I gazed upon her as one might gaze on some fluttering, rare-plumaged bird .

  • Engravings have made every inquiring person well acquainted with the celebrated monument which goes by the name of "Pompey's Pillar," and the feelings with which we gazed upon it are much more easily imagined than described.

  • The unhappy infant seemed to know that I interfered in its behalf, for it gazed upon me with a piteous but grateful expression; it could not have been more than three years old, and was really very pretty and interesting in its tears.

  • The pictures I gazed upon, idealised and perfected by my mind's eye, have always abided with me.

  • Truly," I thought, as I gazed upon them, "nature has its compensations!

  • I saw on the left of me a deep cave, which as I gazed upon it grew to an enormous size.

  • He gazed upon it long and tenderly, and with it still exposed to view brought from his desk the little packet of yellowed letters in their faded blue ribbon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gazed upon" 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:
    accompany her; admirably adapted; commonly known; ever before; flint implements; future punishment; gazed around; gazed down; gazed upon; general prices; generally applied; high relief; pretty nigh; rare instances; recording secretary; regard the; safe conduct; single thread; stood away; this also; true story; unstable equilibrium; viewed from; will never