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Example sentences for "lookout"

Lexicographically close words:
lookest; looketh; lookin; looking; lookit; lookouts; looks; lookst; lookt; looky
  1. Anyone interested in shooting should keep a lookout for cat tracks in the woods during the summer and autumn, and do his best to let them show no more.

  2. These bright spires of pink bloom attract our attention no less than the countless eyes of flies, beetles, and bees, ever on the lookout for food to be eaten on the spot or stored up for future progeny.

  3. Here he had set up a lookout bench like that at the fort.

  4. The afternoon was waning, and Colina, knowing she must have covered nearly sixty miles, began to keep a sharp lookout ahead.

  5. Yet it cheered us greatly, so that we waved our congratulations to the man who stood in the lookout in the superstructure, and he waved back.

  6. Now it was the bo'sun's watch from eight of the evening until midnight, and I, with another man, had the lookout until four bells.

  7. Had they known that he was actually on the lookout for them, they would have been much astonished.

  8. Of course, a careful lookout is being kept.

  9. As I have told you before, I have been on the lookout for these miscreants since their former visit, when they threatened to hang me to one of my trees if I did not give up what money I had on hand," replied the planter.

  10. Captain Gordon had been instructed to be on the lookout for these marauders.

  11. Doubtless one or more of the ruffians had been on the lookout for the appearance of a man in the hall below; and as the planter passed behind the open door, the opportunity had been used.

  12. Fronklyn was on the lookout for it, and sprang lightly into the fore-sheets, making a spring on his board stick.

  13. If we get my father away from there they'll be sure to be on the lookout for hours afterward, and we can't always depend on the donkey not braying.

  14. Only be on the lookout for strangers in town," said Ned.

  15. It seemed to me, sometimes, as if everybody I saw in the streets resembled a pickpocket that I had to be on the lookout for.

  16. I have encountered these miniature "Whitechapels" mainly on my excursions in tramp life, but I had to be on the lookout for them during the police experience.

  17. And even as the words passed my lips there came a shout from the lookout on the forecastle of "Sail ho!

  18. Two minutes later the decks were deserted, save by myself, and I was bracing myself up to keep a lookout as best I might.

  19. Strange that I did not notice the little schooner at anchor as I came down; for I have been on the lookout for her now a long while.

  20. We'll keep a good lookout on the way up, and then we'll go ashore there and make some inquiries.

  21. The police could do very little, as might be expected, though they promised to keep a lookout for the fellow.

  22. I'll keep a lookout for that man, and if I see or hear anything of him I'll let you know.

  23. He likewise had a most extensive creed as regarded fairies of all sorts and sizes, and was always on the lookout for a Leprechaun.

  24. This Enchanted Cobbler of the meadows, Darby Kelleher was always on the lookout for.

  25. Instruct your men to keep a lookout for it, and if seen again to-night to call me at once.

  26. The stages go through three times a week, and there are frequent couriers and trains, but they don't keep a lookout for pony tracks.

  27. The position taken up by my troops inside the lines of Chattanooga was near the old iron-works, under the shadow of Lookout Mountain.

  28. About this time a small squad of men reached the top of Lookout and planted the Stars and Stripes on its very crest.

  29. This could be done only by recrossing Lookout Mountain, the enemy's army at Lafayette now interposing between us and Thomas's corps.

  30. It had the effect of disconcerting Bragg, however, and caused him to strengthen his right by withdrawing troops from his left, which circumstance led Hooker to advance on the northerly face of Lookout Mountain.

  31. On the 10th I arrived at Valley Head, and climbing Lookout Mountain, encamped on the plateau at Indian Falls.

  32. When the goal was reached, and the boat was landed high up among the scrub growth, I shouldered my blankets and charts, and plodded through the soft soil towards the dark object, which I now recognized to be a man on a lookout post.

  33. But it was some satisfaction to follow Mr. Reed's further orders to keep a sharp lookout all that night, about the premises.

  34. He and his uncle had agreed that she must be spared not only all knowledge of the secret, but all anxiety or suspicion concerning her history; and they and Jack kept a constant lookout for the disagreeable intruder.

  35. Instantly the lookout at the foretop-gallant-masthead hailed the deck below.

  36. There were two hands at the wheel and two on the lookout on the forecastle, glittering in oil-skins, and ducking now and again to the seas which swept over the ship's bows.

  37. It was late afternoon when a man whom the squatter king had sent into the woods to act as lookout came running back.

  38. They are always on the lookout for something to quarrel about, and are almost as temperamental as grand opera stars.

  39. I had been on the lookout all through the day for ruins, and I was now cheered by the intelligence that I should find some on the summit of the hill we were climbing.

  40. We must continue to be on the lookout for telegrams in cipher.

  41. Harry Wright and the different managers are always on the lookout for talent, and they'll scoop you in.

  42. My old dear, we be safest when the storm-winds blow; for then God do be keeping the lookout for us.

  43. When the men on the lookout saw the shadow of a dark cloud coming on and on over the sea, when they waved the signal-bush right and left over their heads and sweeping their feet, then they would out of harbour and shoot the seine.

  44. He's on the lookout for talent, as I told you, and will be only too glad to give him a trial.

  45. We'll keep a sharp lookout on the way back, and we may find something, after all.

  46. But though he was secretly pleased, he did not intend to let Broom see it, and moreover he felt that he must be constantly on the lookout for treachery.

  47. These people aren't looking for us, and we've done a lot of scouting when other fellows who were on the lookout for us knew just about where we were.

  48. Gurley picked up the rifle again and climbed the lookout rock.

  49. Henry Burns, on the lookout forward, presently gave a shout of warning.

  50. Tom Harris, as lookout forward to watch the shoaling of the channel, saw, all at once, something that made his flesh creep.

  51. The squire had some interests in several small schooners plying between the coast cities and Benton, and was in the habit of going up to his lookout two or three times each day.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lookout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.