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Example sentences for "gazing"

Lexicographically close words:
gazers; gazes; gazeth; gazetted; gazettes; geal; gean; gear; geare
  1. The profound and solemn eyes were gazing calmly and steadily at him.

  2. He seemed to be entirely oblivious of everything, and sat perfectly motionless, gazing remotely and abstractedly over the heads of the people.

  3. Bishop Caiaphas was gazing steadily at him.

  4. As Gilderman stood gazing after the departing figures another figure came down the street, this time upon the same side as that on which he stood.

  5. The others of the party were gathered in an adjoining room, gazing silently at the scene without.

  6. Maggie, who had wailed herself into perfect exhaustion and almost stupor, sat gazing fixedly in his face; the rest seemed hushed as by a spell, and did not begin to move until some moments after his voice ceased.

  7. He sat a few minutes gazing at the glowing logs, and then his eyelids closed in the blessed calm of sleep.

  8. After the first shock of surprise was over, she remained gazing upon the spectacle in perfect silence.

  9. Gazing at her wildly for a moment, he exclaimed, "What, you here, Agnes!

  10. Gazing upon it the spirit grows calm and the voice unconsciously sinks into a whisper.

  11. He was sitting on the sofa, with his legs stretched out before him, gazing into space, and thinking of Sandmoor, near Ilfracombe.

  12. But Amy, as their voices rose and filled the room, sat gazing at the page which she did not read.

  13. He crushed the flapping paper together, put it back, and sat gazing at the black pool at his side, idly wondering whether it were deep enough to drown a man.

  14. Reynold stood where she had left him, gazing after her.

  15. She was gazing at him through a bright film of unshed tears.

  16. Mrs. Harding paused for a moment by the fire, gazing curiously at her son, as if she were studying a problem.

  17. Barbara waited passively by his side, gazing straight before her.

  18. The painted eyes of the portraits on the wall looked askance at them as they stood gazing about.

  19. She seemed to grow still taller as she stood there, resting one hand on the tiller and gazing at him with perfectly serious eyes.

  20. She was leaning back and gazing straight before her, towards the harbour's mouth.

  21. She was leaning forth and gazing after them: but, hearing my Master's footsteps as he came from the stables, she withdrew her eyes from the road and nodded down at him gaily.

  22. Behind the rosy face of every well-nourished child I saw a lamb gazing up at the butcher's knife.

  23. She had turned her face aside and was gazing out into the darkness.

  24. John Emmet is dead," he announced, pausing before the window with his back towards me and gazing out upon the ill-kept lawn.

  25. We seemed on the very brink of eternity, gazing into the unknown, and as the drowning man reviews his whole life in a second, we in like manner saw our past, and peered into the future.

  26. Just so," we all assented, gazing abstractedly towards the west at the black wall of the opposite barn, which totally obstructed all view of any kind, even if the fog had not made a sunrise an absolutely ridiculous suggestion.

  27. Look to it that she is put to light labor," the sculptor continued, gazing loftily down into the narrow eyes.

  28. Gazing down into his eyes, she said with sudden solemnity: "My Prince, may I give my life into thy hands?

  29. Rachel stood for a moment gazing sadly across the stretch of sand toward the abrupt wall against which it terminated inland.

  30. Charlie stood for a moment gazing at his father intently.

  31. His father was there, seated by the fire, gazing steadfastly on the burning coals.

  32. Dannie was gazing in silent and dreadful apprehension at his grandfather, yet the anticipated outburst of passion from the old man's lips did not come.

  33. He had removed his hat and stood gazing intently at the white shaft and at the vine-covered mound at its base.

  34. He held out his hands appealingly as he spoke, gazing alternately at his grandfather and at the lawyer.

  35. Gabriel had dropped his hoe, Dannie had thrust his hands savagely into his trousers pockets, and both stood gazing with wide eyes on the animated scene.

  36. At the feast of Corpus Christi she left off her mourning for her father and appeared in the procession so resplendent with silver and velvet and silk that the people could hardly say their prayers for gazing at her.

  37. They had by this time come to the main temple and stood outside, O Sato gazing at the altar where Amida Buddha and Kwannon, the Manifestation of Mercy, reigned above the lotus flowers in the fragrant mists of incense.

  38. Hayashi, furtively gazing round him, noticed that there were no industrial implements to be seen, but that in one corner were standing a sword and a gun.

  39. Turning towards the flood of moonlight with a fierce and unholy joy at the thought of gazing on his rival's head, he uncovers what he carries.

  40. The moment of weakness passed, and Matsuo once more sat erect, gazing at his son with an unmoved face, white and set as a mask.

  41. He mused for a few seconds, gazing at the dead faces of his would-be murderers.

  42. Philip the Second found a similar pleasure in gazing on the huge chest of bronze in which his remains were to be laid, and especially on the skull which, encircled with the crown of Spain, grinned at him from the cover.

  43. Black against it, perched high upon a pile of blocks, I recognized the long, lean outline of Ventnor, rifle in hand, gazing intently up the ancient road whose windings were plain through the opening.

  44. Several times during my labors I had been aware of Norhala gazing down upon us; but she made no effort to help, nor did she speak.

  45. And up past her floated Ruth, levitated as had been she--and her face, ecstatic as though she were gazing into Paradise, yet drenched with the tranquillity of the infinite.

  46. A hundred yards, perhaps, we had gone in silence before we stopped, gazing stupidly at an opening in the wall beside us.

  47. Sara did not answer; she was gazing at the glowing fire, whose flames and sparks chased each other up the chimney.

  48. I have never agreed to give thee up;" and without another word he passed round the broom bushes, leaving Morva alone gazing out over the blue bay.

  49. Ebben Owens on the following Sunday afternoon, as he sat smoking in the chimney-corner, Tudor beside him gazing rather mournfully into the fire.

  50. It is there that Inger Gyldenlove is wont to stand gazing out over the road, as though looking for one that never comes.

  51. ELINA (shakes her head, absently gazing straight in front of her).

  52. ELINA catches sight of NILS LYKKE, and stands still, as in surprise, gazing at him.

  53. ELINA (proudly, but still gazing at him).

  54. Indeed, it constantly happens that the student of biology, while gazing through his microscope, hits upon discoveries that have the most far-removed implications.

  55. She was looking over the side of the boat, gazing sadly on the rippled surface of the stream.

  56. My master was gazing at the woman, his companion, with a look of paternal tenderness.

  57. I stood like a frozen image gazing at the artist's clay, waiting in an agony of expectation for Marion to scream.

  58. Not even to make myself a millionaire could I forego the rapture I discovered in gazing on her face; and to remain now, meant that I should dwell under the same roof!

  59. We'll see you later, though," promised George, gazing after wistfully.

  60. They're beginning to raise a dust," remarked Harry, gazing back.

  61. Without a word a red-shirted miner who had been intently gazing and swaying as if drunk had whipped out his revolver and fired.

  62. Harry was up, standing near the cart and gazing to the east.

  63. Here at the base of the mountain other outfits likewise had halted: wagons unloading, or waiting for teams to return and help them up; pack animals having their packs readjusted; foot travelers sitting and resting while gazing upward.

  64. Helen (coming slowly up to Mr. Burley, and still gazing earnestly into his face).

  65. When the pastor sat gazing at his child, it appeared to him a marvelous thing that he, even he, should have endowed any human being with a fortune.

  66. When he looked again March stood at the bedside gazing down into the girl's face.

  67. She went with him to the door when he made his rather precipitate departure and stood, after she had waved him a temporary farewell, gazing up at the soft sun-bathed slope with its aisles of gnarled trees.

  68. He sat for a moment gazing abstractedly at his littered table, clutching the edges of it with both hands, resisting a momentary vertigo of his own.

  69. Then she flung it aside and drifted over to the piano bench and after gazing moodily a while at the keyboard, began in a fragmentary way to play bits of nothing that came into her head.

  70. She was gazing at him now, fascinated, in unwilling comprehension.

  71. He stood gazing thoughtfully at Mary, his eyes luminous in the dark.

  72. It was a view of which Bertha seemed never able to have enough, and she was always to be found gazing at it when the first ready for a walk.

  73. Lady Blandish was recumbent upon the brown pine-droppings, gazing through a vista of the lower greenwood which opened out upon the moon-lighted valley, her hands clasped round one knee, her features almost stern in their set hard expression.

  74. It seemed to him he was a ghost gazing upon his living past.

  75. He took the hand, and held it, gazing between her eyes.

  76. She was still sitting with her hands clasped round one knee, gazing towards the dim ray-strewn valley.

  77. Lou sat rigid, gazing with eyes that widened and burned in flames under which the man before her cringed.

  78. He darted a single glance at his wife, and saw her sitting erect again, gazing at the player with dilated eyes in which showed the hunger of a soul.

  79. For several minutes he sat thumbing over the new bills and gazing out into the twilight; then he jammed them deep into his pocket and started for the door.

  80. Like an Aztec princess she stood silent and impassive, gazing out from beneath her dark lashes and waiting to catch some further word of praise from this dashing stranger.

  81. Working his way along the rim Bill Todhunter finally spied the drift-fence across the box of the caƱon, and soon from his high perch he was gazing down into that stupendous hole in the ground that Pecos had turned into a pasture.

  82. Gazing out thus upon the revolution which was happening before my eyes, I did not think of my own house or what was passing there, till suddenly, in a moment, I was aware that some one had come in to me.

  83. In the dimness it had not seemed so certain; now, gazing at each other in the clear light of the natural morning, we saw what had happened to us.

  84. But on the other side, not twenty steps off, was the house full of those who wept, and at all the doors and windows anxious faces gazing down upon that cloud in the valley where Semur was.

  85. I recognised among many of my own countrymen, who were gazing at me, the American Consul, Mr. Walsh.

  86. After arriving at its base, we stood for some moments under the mighty arches that lead into the great hall, gazing at its old grey walls frowning with age.

  87. From the top of the Loughrigg Fell, the eye loses its power in gazing upon the objects below.

  88. My own colour differing from those about me, I attracted not a little attention from many; and often, when gazing down the street to see if the Royal procession was in sight, would find myself eyed by all around.

  89. From the moment they sighted it Patsy's feet began to lag; and by the time they reached the crossing of the ways she had stopped altogether and was gazing up at the little gold cross with an odd expression of whimsical earnestness.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gazing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agape; aghast; agog; amazed; astounded; awestruck; beguiled; bewildered; bewitched; breathless; captivated; dumbfounded; enchanted; enraptured; enthralled; entranced; fascinated; flabbergasted; gaping; hypnotized; mesmerized; overwhelmed; puzzled; spellbound; staggered; staring; stupefied; surprised; thunderstruck; wondering