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Example sentences for "gazes"

Lexicographically close words:
gazed; gazelle; gazelles; gazer; gazers; gazeth; gazetted; gazettes; gazing
  1. He will be reminded, as he gazes about him upon the youthful faces, of the fabled village, whose inhabitants had drunk at the fountain of rejuvenescence.

  2. They awe the observer to a sense of his own utter insignificance as he gazes upon that glistening majestic sky-line, and feels the overwhelming influence of those mighty mountains upon him.

  3. A depression in the sky-line ahead shows where the Raton Pass (7,620 feet to be exact) reaches its highest point and gazes forwards into the heart of New Mexico and behind into the vastnesses of Colorado.

  4. They roam the happy fields together now, sometimes he leading, sometimes she; and Orpheus gazes as much as he will upon her, no longer incurring a penalty for a thoughtless glance.

  5. He gave him an upright stature, so that while all other animals turn their faces downward, and look to the earth, he raises his to heaven, and gazes on the stars.

  6. Criticism is almost disarmed as one gazes at his "Sleeping Babes," or the tender grace of "Latona and her Infants.

  7. He awakes now, however, with a start, and gazes wonderingly around him.

  8. There may be melancholy in the old sailor's heart as he gazes skywards, but there is hope as well, for these little points of dazzling light bear his thoughts away to better worlds than this.

  9. Hector smiles and gazes at the boy; while Andromache stands by his side weeping and clasps his hand in hers, and urges him to take thought for himself and to have pity on her, forlorn, and on their infant boy.

  10. Had he turned his eyes aside, then indeed he knew the piercing glory would have blinded them; but that could never be, for he who gazes on that light feels all desire centred there--in it are all things else.

  11. If I can pretend to see at all into that dim region, whence she gazes so strangely and sadly at us, Beatrice's own conscience does not acquit her of something evil, and never to be forgiven!

  12. And you are sad again, very sad; and the picture gazes sadly forth at me, as if some evil had befallen it in the little time since I looked last.

  13. He gazes at the masts and the furled sails.

  14. He raises his head, turns and gazes at me.

  15. He then gazes towards the nearest ship, which is about five miles' distant.

  16. The man in possession pauses here, and old Ben Sparrow gazes earnestly at him.

  17. Then, setting himself up, he gazes at himself in admiration.

  18. But as he there stands and gazes into space, the two forms are before his eye as distinct as if living still.

  19. There is a tear in John's eye as he gazes on this scene.

  20. Another illustrious man lived near the Temple of Health,--Valerius Martial the epigrammatist.

  21. The arrangement of the hair is characteristic of the age of the Antonines, and differs but little from the coiffure of Faustina the elder.

  22. The little songs she sang were of the very kind that one might well sing if, with full heart, one gazes out upon the sea, while the orange-blossoms are fragrant and the boughs of the eucalyptus rustle.

  23. He starts up and gazes at me with swimming eyes.

  24. This is why the speaker gazes downward as he makes it.

  25. An aged man in night-dress cowers against the wall of his bedroom and gazes with horror at an enormous index-finger which, with the hand to which it is attached, has crawled across the floor as would a devilfish, or some such sort of monster.

  26. When she gazes from the window of her prison tower she sees no one.

  27. But 'tis best when clouds are flying O'er the clear blue April skies, And through dreamy depths she gazes Into heaven and mother's eyes.

  28. What will not an India merchant dream as he gazes from his window?

  29. She runs her little fingers through her pretty short locks, and gazes round.

  30. Then she lifts her head, and gazes straight at him.

  31. The charm is there still--he knows that as he gazes into her deep eyes, but is it quite as potent?

  32. He gazes now in exstatic trance Through the casement, out into nature's expanse.

  33. But Alizon rejects it with horror, and gazes at her false mother as if she suspected the delusion.

  34. He gazes on other worlds, and pictures there the perfection he sighs for, but cannot find in this.

  35. In the road stands the figure of a man, with his back turned, his hand shading his eyes as he gazes out across the plain.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gazes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.