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Example sentences for "look for"

  • He has not a good length, but he varies his action bewilderingly, and has one especially teasing ball which falls from the branches just as you have stepped out of your ground to look for it.

  • I rose a moment ago to look for it in my mirror.

  • If I fear, it is for you, seeing that if you are hurt you may not be able to go with me to look for Bangu's cattle.

  • I sent all the hunters I had with me to look for them, only Scowl and I remaining at the wagons, which in those disturbed times I did not like to leave unguarded.

  • Next morning I was awakened shortly after sunrise by Scowl, whom I had sent out with another man the night before to look for a lost ox.

  • You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look for, and which doesn't come to you in the ordinary way of business.

  • I was coming to look for you,' she said, 'now that the house is quiet.

  • I went out to look for a suspect and found a British officer.

  • I contributed a yarn about the men who went to look for Kruger's treasure in the bushveld and got scared by a green wildebeeste.

  • I wanted something more than mere companionship could give me, and where was I to look for it?

  • And after a while he saw a sight which made him jump up; for he knew in a moment it was one of the things which he had come to look for.

  • However, I will find her again, if I go to the world's end to look for her.

  • You may see her, as I said, at her work often enough if you know where to look for her: but you will never see her do that.

  • The very next day I began to look for a well-digger.

  • And then, when I take it up to her, you tell me what symptoms to look for.

  • He said there were enough life-preservers for all the passengers, but in the confusion many may not have known where to look for them.

  • As the cable ship Mackay-Bennett was in sight, and having word that her mission was to look for bodies, no attempt was made by the Bremen's crew to pick up the corpses.

  • But here, except thou do the quite contrary, except thou send Moses away with his law, and in these terrors and this anguish lay hold upon Christ who died for thy sins, look for no salvation.

  • Norah rose, as the clock struck twelve, and quietly left the room to look for her.

  • The end of it is, you came here to look for me; and you mean to earn the fifty pounds reward.

  • Look for them, and they remain invisible.

  • Sunfish has all the earmarks of speed if you know how to look for them.

  • We'll go look for her, Mr. Birnie, but we've got to have something so we can see.

  • Then he began to look for Honey, who had disappeared.

  • Herbert at a word from the reporter ran out to look for water.

  • We went to look for a human creature, and we are bringing back a monster!

  • This morning Bulangi went with a canoe to look for him.

  • He knew, of course, where to look for what he wanted.

  • After awhile Ali came to look for me and cut me free.

  • And while I suffer thus, there comes no ray Of hope to gladden me athwart the gloom; Nor do I look for it in my despair; But rather clinging to a cureless woe, All hope do I abjure for evermore.

  • My dear," said I, "you have told me yourself what reward he has to look for.

  • My orders are to drive you back where I took you from," replied the man, "and set out to look for others up to midnight.

  • And if the old gentleman was sane, what, in God's name, had he to look for?

  • Dominic went ashore to look for him, but returned at the end of two hours alone and very angry, as I could see by the token of the invisible smile under his moustache being intensified.

  • If he had come down to the dock to look for a berth, he did not seem oppressed by anxiety as to his chances.

  • If the giant-girl came to look for them, they must hide hard, she said.

  • When you were with them, you were where you could help them: you left your work to look for it!

  • At length I became so hopeless of catching it, that I no longer troubled myself either to look for it by day, or lie in wait for it at night.

  • Very soon now you'll send up your nose to look for me, and then we'll kiss like good elephants, we will!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "look for" 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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