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Example sentences for "looking around"

  • This air will set him up on his legs again in no time--and meanwhile he can be looking around.

  • The river's low now, and has been some time," said Renshaw, looking around.

  • Looking around, he espied a seat--the same rustic bench where we first witnessed Violet's stolen interview.

  • I am too late," he said, looking around him.

  • He was not used to visitations, and for the instant, if the truth be told, he was not equal to looking around.

  • Yes--yes it is," he answered, looking around at it and then in an indescribably comical manner down at his clothes.

  • The sweet face within the locket was as vividly fixed in his memory as if the original were a sister of his, and he never passed through the train without looking around, in the hope of seeing the little girl herself.

  • Oh," said Croft, looking around at her very coldly and sternly, "I begin to see.

  • That is a fearful word," said Abby, looking around with a wild stare, as if the very foundations of her life had been disturbed by the word her cousin used.

  • She stood in the little sitting-room, looking around in breathless expectation.

  • The sovereign is very calm, and talks to his host in German, looking around at the noble beauty of the house he is entering.

  • Maria remained standing in the middle of the study, looking around so uncertainly and fleetingly that it seemed as if she was almost seeking help.

  • Prescott in surprise, looking around at the chill world.

  • Looking around in search of a possible purchaser, his eye caught Prescott.

  • At least not in such a magnificent chariot as ours," he said, looking around at the lumbering farm wagon.

  • In the process of looking around, they came on an abandoned camp.

  • Looking around, she found that her clothes were gone.

  • The motion of something near him made the blood again run to his heart, and by a sudden effort he started up, and, looking around, saw to his relief that the noise was occasioned by the footsteps of his own mule.

  • Looking around, he wondered what kind of chemicals he could scrounge.

  • Bates growled, looking around at all the assembled terrorists now readying their weapons.

  • He and Joe spent some time in looking around.

  • Looking around, they saw a tall, very slim young man of perhaps twenty, with light wavy hair and an unusually light complexion.

  • We'll spend a day or so looking around there.

  • Pause) TONY (looking around, mysteriously) Where are we then?

  • FRIAR (looking around) Yes, it is splendid.

  • LIPA (looking around in a paroxysm of excitement) How simple it is!

  • After about an hour of looking around, Joe sighed, "Gonna need more time, Zip.

  • Those space buzzards are not detail men-just grab and destroy without even looking around.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking around" 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:
    class work; coverts brown; feminine education; house keeper; looking ahead; looking away; looking craft; looking face; looking fellow; looking hard; looking house; looking little; looking much; looking people; looking personage; looking straight; looking upon; looking very; looking woman; looking youth; main road; oddly enough; presided over; second vice; small figure; while waiting