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How to use look in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, interjection, noun

Look means as an intransitive verb, often with “at”. Example: “They kept looking at me.”

Examples of look by meaning

verbAs an intransitive verb, often with “at”.

  • They kept looking at me.
  • Don’t look in the closet.

verbAs a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.

  • Look what you did to him!
  • Look who's back!
  • Look how they massacred my boy.1972, The Godfather

verbTo appear, to seem.

  • Our new boss looks to be friendly.
  • (UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
  • You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 264-265

verbTo give an appearance of being.

  • What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.
  • That painting looks nice.
  • You’re looking worried. Whaddya thinking about?

verbTo face or present a view.

  • The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.
  • Wornath-Mavai lieth in a valley and looketh towards the south, and on the slopes of it Sish rested among the flowers when Sish was young.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC

verbTo expect or anticipate.

  • I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.

verbTo express or manifest by a look.

  • For a few seconds Mr Carlyle looked his unutterable feelings.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

verbTo influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.

  • to look down opposition

More sentences with look

  • If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.From the entry dictionary
  • The company is looking for people with good heads for business.From the entry head
  • It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.From the entry the
  • I think that red dress looks really good on you, but your mileage may vary, of course.From the entry your mileage may vary
  • The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.From the entry meat
  • He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.From the entry bit
  • The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!From the entry take
  • Looking at him as he came into the room, I took him for his father.From the entry take
  • He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.From the entry work
  • You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.From the entry drug
  • As mom gave us a long look, I gave a sigh and my sister gave a laugh.From the entry give
  • Look at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!From the entry would
  • This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.From the entry counterfeit
  • I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.From the entry square
  • She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?From the entry twenty
  • You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.From the entry picture
  • I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.From the entry mill
  • He jumped when he looked up to see a man standing before him.From the entry jump
  • She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.From the entry sill
  • The houses looked very bright after they had whitewashed the whole neighbourhood.From the entry whitewash
  • Have a look in the Acme brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.From the entry brochure
  • I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.From the entry bad
  • Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?From the entry touch
  • Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.From the entry eye

Meaning of look

  1. verb As an intransitive verb, often with “at”.
  2. verb As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
  3. verb To appear, to seem.

Full definition of look

Questions about look in a sentence

How do you use look in a sentence?
Look is used as a verb, interjection and noun. For example: “They kept looking at me.”
What is a short sentence with look?
“Look who's back!”
What does look mean?
Look means as an intransitive verb, often with “at”.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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