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Example sentences for "looking out"

  • I said nothing, however, and soon we were in a large room, sumptuously furnished, looking out on the great square.

  • We had but got back to our camp, when, looking out, we saw a well-manned four-oared boat making for the shore.

  • Rabaut and they therefore sit, intent; examining witnesses; launching arrestments; looking out into a waste dim sea of troubles.

  • He applied to Daniel Doyce for help, as they stood together, looking out of window.

  • From pottering around among the drawers, in momentary expectation of her arrival he changed to looking out of the window, and from that to resting himself in the rocking-chair.

  • She was engaged in looking out of the window.

  • A big, heavy-faced porter was standing at one of the side entrances, looking out.

  • It comes between you and your work; you see it looking out of the eyes of a friend.

  • The confused and dulled roar of voices came from the distance also; and, looking out to the landward side, David saw a series of movements of the besieging forces, under the Arab leader, Ali Wad Hei.

  • Looking out of a window, he stroked his thin, clean-shaven face with a lean finger.

  • Sometimes a big sweep of river showed, and, looking out at one station I saw a funny church with a thing like an onion on top of its spire.

  • Looking out on the bleak weather I shivered.

  • I seemed to be looking out of a window at a lovely summer landscape where there were no wars or danger.

  • The big man, falsely in his aspect, like a monk, looking out at the far-off figures on the distant roads, now turned about.

  • My father stood leaning against the casement of the window, looking out.

  • A man was standing before the door, his hands behind him, looking out at the sea.

  • A little window up there was open, and he stood leaning against the stone, looking out, resting his whole being.

  • And, rising, he went over to the window, looking out at the moonlit lawn, overcome by a sudden aversion from more talk.

  • They stood a few minutes longer under the oak-tree--looking out to where the grand stand at Epsom was veiled in evening.

  • In the third carriage a disjointed conversation was carried on in the intervals of looking out to see how far they had got, George remarking, "Well, it was really time that the poor old lady went.

  • Mrs. Paine, looking out, gave a cry of alarm.

  • You would call this winter, I suppose," said the traveller, looking out at the darkening street.

  • Looking out of the western window, Pearl Watson, with a faint wrinkle between her eyebrows, admitted to herself that it was not a cheerful day.

  • Several soldiers gathered by the wall of the trench, looking out to see what was happening in front.

  • While the Emperor was dining, Valuev, looking out of the window, said: "The people are still hoping to see Your Majesty again.

  • Here's Berg coming to see us," said she, looking out of the window.

  • Angela ushered mademoiselle to the pretty summer-parlour, looking out upon a geometrical arrangement of flower-beds in the Dutch manner.

  • But at last even he was satisfied, and then Ted and Jan went back to their first game of looking out of the window for Indians or other sights that might interest them.

  • The train had come to a standstill, and Jan and Ted, looking out of the windows of their berths, could see men moving about in the darkness outside with flaring torches.

  • The Curlytops, looking out of the window again, saw more men hurrying here and there with flaring torches which flickered and smoked.

  • Looking out of the hospital-window, he saw the deep of the stainless blue, impenetrable, with the stars unconscious in their silence of the maddest raging of the petty world.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking out" 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:
    compound leaf; corresponding ages; further advance; gross receipts; hydrocyanic acid; looking about; looking animal; looking down; looking earnestly; looking face; looking forward; looking glass; looking house; looking north; looking out; looking person; looking personage; looking south; looking through; looking upon; looking very; looking young; looking youth; own experience; sight setting; world began