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Example sentences for "look forward"

  • Now, let us look forward, and not backward.

  • It goes to my heart to see a woman of that age, with nothing to look forward to but kicks and blows.

  • The men stoutly took their oars, casting a look forward at the rocks, then at the quay, and on the face of their young steersman.

  • The telling you about it will be a treat to look forward to all the time.

  • A son--something to look forward to, something to make the rest of life worth while, something to leave himself to, some perpetuity of self.

  • Nothing to look forward to, for her--for me!

  • After all, dared he go so far as that, and show her what there was to look forward to!

  • If you were not exceptionally brilliant or exceptionally well connected, they passed you over so disgracefully, and what was it after all to look forward to, even if you became an admiral--a pittance!

  • If only there were a joyful future to look forward to!

  • A girl with a good home to live in and another to look forward to--and able to earn money respectably!

  • For this ideal state we look forward hopefully.

  • In the change from the dominance of one sex to the equal power of two, to what may we look forward?

  • But hitherto they had never been able to look forward in accord, as she still persisted in declaring that if her husband bade her to go with him,--she would go.

  • But I will endeavour to look forward to a time when I may again perhaps be of some humble use.

  • His daughter would go to him when at breakfast, and there, together for some half-hour, they would endeavour to look forward to their future fate.

  • I can't say that I look forward to any great pleasure in doing so on this occasion;--but I shall do it.

  • Men as they come to think about it and to look forward, and to look back, will not believe in such a millennium as that.

  • I mean the people who have nowhere to go and nothing to look forward to in this life.

  • Do you understand how frightful that is--nothing to look forward to!

  • What sort of future could he look forward to?

  • In my little home amid the northern bogs, I used to look forward when I had finished writing, to reading a story.

  • Nor do the possibilities stop there, for we look forward to a time when, if I might pursue the metaphor of my text, the coinage shall be called in and reminted, in new forms of nobleness and of likeness.

  • That is the termination of the contest to which I look forward.

  • They are content to look forward and to hope that such means will come.

  • It was easier to look forward to such a result and hope for such an end of the difficulty, than to extinguish slavery by a great political movement, which must doubtless have been difficult and costly.

  • It was my duty to call upon you because you were in my district; but now it will be a pleasure to which I hope you will let me look forward.

  • I cannot bear to think of your settling down into a weary working-woman, with nothing to look forward to but daily drudgery for daily bread.

  • Oh, mamma, we must be able to look forward to some escape from all this, or else you will soon give way to despair, and the worst will come.

  • Belle now had pleasures to look forward to, or some bright scene to live over again, and, were it not for her sympathy for her sister and anxiety on her father's behalf, her brow would have been serene.

  • With the life Charley leads me, I haven't much to look forward to.

  • I ought not to have confronted you with my father's debts at a moment when you had every reason to look forward to freedom from most petty economies and cares.

  • I pray God to strengthen and enable me: I look forward, thanks to Him, hopefully and cheerfully.

  • Speaking for myself, I used to look forward to the voyage as the time when I should have the privilege of being much with him for some months.

  • If so, what a day of hope to look forward to!

  • It would be a poor preparation for the life to which I look forward with so much hope.

  • I look forward with a happy anticipation to meeting my brothers and sisters, my father and mother, and my husband; it will be like going home to me.

  • If workpeople can be encouraged to look forward to obtaining a share in the land, the result will be that the the gulf between vast wealth and deep poverty will be bridged over, and the two orders will be brought nearer together.

  • I do not look back, I look forward to this kind of puppet play; I look forward to the day when I shall have time to play with it.

  • Tomorrow she, her little self, would tower above all the world; and the more she felt the oppressive heat of the scorching day, the more delicious it seemed to look forward to finding rest from the torments of life in the cool element.

  • What lay before her seemed so monstrous, so unexampled, that it was impossible that she ever could look forward to it firmly and calmly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    joined them; look alive; look away; look back; look down; look like; look mighty; look yonder; looked after; looked kind; looked more; looking ahead; looking around; looking away; looking face; looking fellow; looking fellows; looking for; looking gentleman; looking hard; looking man; looking out; looking over; looking rather; looking south; looks back