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Example sentences for "looking over"

  • Whenever Monsieur Catherinot came to Paris, he used to haunt the quaies where books are sold, and while he appeared to be looking over them, he adroitly slided one of his own dissertations among these old books.

  • In looking over a manuscript life of Tobie Matthews, Archbishop of York in James the First's reign, I found a curious anecdote of his grace's disappointment in the dispositions of his sons.

  • In looking over them, and beholding the endless flocks and herds, one wonders what can become of all the meat!

  • He was digging in his garden; and I, looking over a low hedge, pitched him up for a gossip, commencing by asking him whether that was the parson's house.

  • The house of the Eschelles was on the sea, looking over a vast sweep of lawn to the cliff and the dimpling blue water of the first beach.

  • Polly, looking over at the cheval-glass with a shiver.

  • It may be typhoid fever, you know, Mamsie," looking over at her.

  • Phronsie obediently, looking over at the girl indicated, and holding her breath for the answer.

  • Polly, looking over at the five boys, who in this sudden emergency were knocked speechless.

  • Jerry is looking over my shoulder, and says this pun is too bad to send, and a disgrace to the University--but never mind.

  • Then, looking over at her, he smiled, too.

  • See, he is looking over at us wistfully, in a way that plainly suggests our course.

  • A twinkle came into the consul's eyes, looking over at his wife, as one is amused sometimes by a joke old and obvious.

  • And then Cathie laughed, and Polly Pepper, looking over, beamed at her, for she had begun to be worried.

  • And you are horrid boys to laugh," said Alexia, looking over at the two.

  • I'll never hear him speak again,' says he, looking over to the figure on the grass.

  • No man better,' says Mr. Falkland, looking over to me with that pitying kind of look in his eyes as made me feel what a fool and rogue I'd been ten times worse than anything else.

  • Aileen, looking over at Starlight as he sat there quite careless and comfortable-looking, as if he'd no call to trouble his head about anything.

  • In a letter to the author, he observes—“In looking over my printed articles, you will find a great number of notices of the habits and workings of various species.

  • I'm like a lean old nag out on a common, looking over a fence and seeing you in clover up to your hat-band.

  • I found him seated under his study-lamp, looking over a portfolio of papers, some of which lay strewed around him open.

  • Now, let me see," said Hurstwood, looking over Carrie's shoulder very deferentially.

  • Here she had a comfortable back room, looking over a collection of back yards in which grew a number of shade trees pleasant to see.

  • Carrie proceeded to get the "Clipper," and tried to find the agents by looking over it as she stood beside the stand.

  • Now the Colne runs through a real valley, shut in to the east by a ridge of high ground, looking over to the Bucks village of Denham, and other spots known to artists as well as to anglers.

  • Stanmore Park, to the south, houses a school; and a golf-ground stretches below the partly artificial mound of Belmont, looking over to Harrow from its south edge.

  • Very apprehensive of being overheard, Jo looks about him and even glances up some ten feet at the top of the hoarding and through the cracks in it lest the object of his distrust should be looking over or hidden on the other side.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking over" 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:
    another account; despatch from; good stock; large piece; little north; looking about; looking ahead; looking animal; looking creature; looking fellow; looking for; looking hard; looking like; looking man; looking much; looking north; looking over; looking round; looking steadily; looking through; looking youth; other towns; particular instances; take you; that they; wanted her