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Example sentences for "looks"

Lexicographically close words:
lookin; looking; lookit; lookout; lookouts; lookst; lookt; looky; lookye; loom
  1. But you young people may get into trouble if you moult now, for it looks like rain.

  2. The beautiful red spot on my throat looks particularly warm and becoming when the weather is cool.

  3. They did not even care about the long, slender tongue-case which every Tomato-Worm has on his pupa-case, and which looks like a handle to it.

  4. Grace's compassionate looks hurt her almost as much as Hope's insult.

  5. She looks more fit to be in bed than at her writing table," thought Dorothy, as she left the room, armed with the necessary prescription.

  6. It looks quite thick and fairy-tale-y--the sort of place to meet a giant or an ogre!

  7. She looks nice, though I wish she had allowed Alison to stay for a few minutes longer.

  8. It looks as if it had stepped out of a picture.

  9. It looks to me like a misdeal," she gaily replied, and was moving away when he called her back.

  10. It looks that way to me," Sister Poteet did not hesitate to affirm.

  11. Flop a sock down over one of 'em--that looks 'easy' all right.

  12. Yet you must have seen the glass in which your wife looks every morning, and I take it that glass must be daily enchanted.

  13. When man appears on earth in a new existence, the earth rarely looks the same as it did at the time of his last incarnation.

  14. If a clairvoyant looks more closely, he will find the cause of this phenomenon.

  15. A third class looks upon it as a kind of presumption for man to attempt to penetrate, by his own efforts of cognition, into a domain with regard to which he should give up all claim to knowledge and be content with faith.

  16. But the author can also conceive of a critic who in general and offhand looks upon the presentations of this book as the out-pourings of a fantasy run wild or as dreamy thought-pictures.

  17. To the eyes of the seer who looks back on those conditions, human bodies, when abandoned by their souls, appear to become more and more solidified.

  18. He looks down, so to speak, from the spiritual world upon earthly possession, which he feels belongs to him.

  19. The Moon human being feels himself overshadowed by the Son of Life, and looks upon himself as the instrument of that higher being.

  20. Through these beings, the ego in the environment of Saturn looks down on that planet, and imparts its nature to Saturn’s individual living beings.

  21. It looks prettier in the picture without shoes," said the artist.

  22. Baby looks on with eyes so bright-- Isn't top spinning a wonderful sight?

  23. Ye make ma heart glad juist wi' the looks o' ye," she added.

  24. The looks of a toad don't tell how far he's goin' to hop.

  25. Proceeding inland on foot, in the direction of Southampton, he overtook a poor man walking along the road whose looks of unutterable misery induced our traveller to stop and inquire what ailed him.

  26. He looks down upon no nobler work done in this world, none that can better merit His blessing and His countenance.

  27. Presently she rose and walked to his cabin, telling me with her looks to follow her.

  28. He looks at her as a schoolmaster looks at a good pupil who is making a fool of himself at his examination.

  29. And then of course there are merry greetings from the children in the little street and roguish glances from all the pretty, little factory girls from behind windows and doors, and dreamy looks from some of the young salesmen and apprentices.

  30. And looks follow him as well as the fortunate one who has conquered him.

  31. He looks quite furious, she thinks, and she almost calls to Maurits to take care.

  32. Then Uncle Theodore suddenly stops and he looks angry.

  33. She looks a little unhappy as she listens to his wisdom.

  34. Doña Mercedes looks charming in a pink grenadine dress, and with her luxuriant black hair tastefully arranged, as a Cuban Señora alone knows how.

  35. It is engraved all over, polished and stained in imitation of a snake; and, as it rests in the green grass, it looks the very counterpart of such a reptile, with beady eyes and scaly back.

  36. He is so rapid in his work, that we can scarcely follow him with our eyes, and the whole performance, from beginning to end, looks to us like a conjuring trick.

  37. I am almost tempted to trespass upon the early hours of the morning, for the sake of the music of 'La Danza' and those open-air refreshment stalls where everything looks hot and inviting.

  38. More than half of this interesting news has been already marked out by the censor's red pencil, and the bewildered sub looks high and low for material wherewith to replenish the censorial gaps.

  39. The window is a barred aperture in the door; is only a foot square, and looks on to the patio, or narrow passage, where unlimited wall stares me in the face.

  40. The dark outlines of the riders who precede me, appear like black silhouettes against a background of green and brown, and nature by candle-light looks like stage scenery.

  41. I suppose one should take no notice of intuitions; but he certainly looks a thorough scoundrel, to my mind.

  42. I didn't like the looks of the fellow a little bit, and I have a sort of presentiment that we have not seen the last of him.

  43. It should not be very difficult, for the wood looks so rotten as almost to be crumbling to powder.

  44. It looks as though the new interest in drawing (or seeing) a real human individual has monopolized the whole attention; that for the time being characterization has driven plot-building completely into the shade.

  45. Why looks my lord like to a troubled sky When heaven's bright shine is shadow'd with a fog?

  46. Rough rigour looks out right, and still prevails: Smooth mildness looks too many ways to thrive.

  47. Brusor, hide her; for her looks withhold me.

  48. But Mosbie will be there, whose very looks Will add unwonted courage to my thought, And make me the first that shall adventure on him.

  49. Theridamas murmurs in awe to himself, 'His looks do menace heaven and dare the gods.

  50. Time and his tenant Death, for the space of a moment's flight Stand on the bare, black ridge dividing eternities twain; One looks back to his realm all waste in the hopeless night, One with the eyes of hope sees it rebuilded again.

  51. He sits and looks into the west Where twilight gathers, wan and gray, A knight who quit the Golden Quest, And flung Excalibur away.

  52. Of an impatient man: "He feeds the hen with one hand and with the other he looks for her eggs.

  53. Giorgio Maggiore; which looks right up the Giudecca canal and in the late afternoon flings back the sun's rays.

  54. It is the first palace since we left the Scalzi that looks as if it were in rightful hands.

  55. Giustina is the victor, afterwards Doge Sebastiano Venier, and Christ looks on in approval.

  56. She had looks and manners and a distinction of her own.

  57. And as she questioned and I answered, she would sit looking at me, with eyes in which contempt grew ever more bitter, looking at me as one looks upon a stranger.

  58. Then comes the day of the revelation, and in Ludsey my newspaper falls from my hands and my wife, who has been my wife for twenty years, looks upon me as a stranger.

  59. But he had never failed until the moment, when at the age of fifty and with the looks of seventy, he had entered the House of Commons.

  60. But Cynthia had caught a note of malice in his voice which brought back before her eyes the malice of his looks as he had stood before her in the field.

  61. It brings in, generally, a good income, and now that Walton looks after it, it gives very little trouble.

  62. It looks much better turned the other way.

  63. She looks a big, strong, bouncing thing, but she isn't.

  64. He was born in Utrecht, but of French parents, as we could readily discover from all his actions, looks and language.

  65. Looks as if they were playing it rather low down, don't it?

  66. He looked upon a successful deal as a good surgeon looks upon a successful operation, as an architect upon the completion of a building or an artist upon his finished picture.

  67. Frankly, it looks strange to us and I have come out to have a little talk with you over the matter and to see if we could not persuade you to reconsider your decision, or at least to learn your reasons for refusing to go in with us.

  68. She grew a little frightened at last at the scowling looks and muttered remarks that followed her as she went, and she was wishing that she had not come when she saw just ahead Abe Lee and Pat.

  69. Looks like they had forgotten something," said one of the recruits as the group stood watching the little party jog steadily into the distance, apparently retracing the tracks the expedition had made the day before.

  70. In fact the whole King's Basin proposition looks mighty good to me, except for that New York bunch.

  71. Looks to me mostly jest plain, common hold-up, only they do it with money 'stead of a gun.

  72. You and I can scout around the delta end of that country over there for a week or two and if it looks good, with what you have already seen, you have enough to talk on.

  73. Jefferson Worth, from behind his gray mask, said in his exact, colorless voice: "He looks as though he ought to handle men.

  74. It looks shameful, all right; and it may have been overheated some time in past ages, but the temperature doesn't appear to be above normal to-day.

  75. That looks like it would be safe enough for Mr. Cartwright.

  76. It looks like we'd got all that was coming to us this trip.

  77. They say he's all right, too, but it looks funny.

  78. The Company looks on us exactly the same way.

  79. To-day the discipline looks after itself.

  80. Time was when Oyler looked upon high school attendance much as a New York gunman looks at Sunday School.

  81. Standing on the threshold of his meager dwelling, this child of six looks forward to a life which must be based on the instruction provided in a public school system.

  82. It looks like the cheese, for he's all speckled.

  83. For you know," sighed Mrs. Watkins, "it looks so much better for a child like you to be out sweeping the porch and paths than what it would me.

  84. Anyhow, that is how Abel Strout looks in the face--speckled.

  85. It looks as though Olga and he must have gone away together.

  86. It looks as though she had deliberately tried to efface herself from the community," said Mr. Broxton Day slowly.

  87. I'll tell you just where she goes and what she looks like.

  88. She did not understand what these looks meant.

  89. I got down the curtains and put them to soak; but I can't starch them and put them on the stretcher and hang them again," confessed Janice "The house looks so bare!

  90. In the morning Robert had come to himself; but he saw in the broken furniture, in the distrustful looks of the children, in the swollen eyes and distressed countenance of his wife, more than he cared to know.

  91. See their averted looks from their parent, and their blushing looks at each other.

  92. Daphnè, in the simplest tone in the world; "he looks very dull all by himself.

  93. The doctor had gathered it from my looks even before I uttered a syllable.

  94. Laura--above this world methinks I fly, And feel the glow of some May-lighted sky, When thy looks beam on mine!

  95. Did you say you did not think her looks this morning indicated any symptoms?

  96. One always looks for works of merit from the pen of Miss Angela Brazil.

  97. The drake looks as if you'd curled his tail feather with the curling tongs.

  98. She was received with black looks when she re-entered the classroom.

  99. The chief question is the scheme of colour: Hilda wants us to copy exactly from some celebrated picture, and Louise says it doesn't matter as long as everything looks very bright and gay.

  100. Certainly it looks as if Emma had decamped with the one pound two and six.

  101. Gwen groaned as she remembered her sister's conscious looks and evasive replies.

  102. A male Calmuck on horseback looks as if he was intoxicated, and likely to fall off every instant, though he never loses his seat; but the women sit with more ease, and ride with extraordinary skill.

  103. To the casual observer what looks like a capture (we are, of course, only speaking of these tribes) is in reality an elopement, in which the woman is an aiding and abetting party.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    looks back; looks down; looks like; looks round; looks upon