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• I'm on the lookout for a good example of a Roman dinar from the 1st century. Let me know if you hear of one anywhere.From the entry on the lookout
• I put out a “be on the lookout” for a lady in a blue dress.2017, Dr. Jeffrey C. Fox, The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great Police Officer. From the entry be on the lookout
• It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49. From the entry cleg
• Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs.2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, page 111. From the entry peg
• Oh, and on page two, be on the lookout for a police box.2009 25 December, Russell T Davies, "The End of Time", part one of two-part special of Doctor Who, 00:18:00–00:18:15. From the entry sticky-uppy
• People began meeting at certain spots at night to keep a lookout for more UFOs.2005, Chris Gethard, Weird New York, Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, page 25. From the entry UFOer
• Monastics of all ages should be on the lookout for the danger of turfdom.1997, Francis Kline, Lovers of the Place, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry turfdom
• Shortly after making the turn, his lookouts reported a destroyer bearing NE by E.1975, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Struggle For Guadalcanal, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 36. From the entry cat's-eyed
• At sea it can be seen through telescopes on all the crowsnests and lookout towers.1961 winter, Tracy Thompson, “Crystal Dew”, in Bond Johnson, III, editor, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, volume…. From the entry crowsnest
• I had read Martin Gardner's polemics against pseudosciences like Scientology and Velikovskyism, and I was on the lookout for more.2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code, Vintage, →ISBN. From the entry Velikovskyism
• The bubble-up process can happen very quickly because professional bloggers are always on the lookout for new content to post.2013, Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Going Viral, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry bubble-up
• "If you'd been the lookout, you'd've told them these were sea cows, not mermaids, right?" "Right," I said.2002, Will Shetterly, Dogland. From the entry mercow
• Since these activities are considered illegal in the United States, young men were often used as lookouts (a.k.a.1992, Justice quarterly - Volume 9, page 651. From the entry looksee
• Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250. From the entry alluring
• Petanque, or "gray copper ore" (tetrahedrite) is the sort for which the Mexican prospector is constantly on the lookout.1906, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 82, page 629. From the entry petanque
• Trains were kept running at all times, with a COSS (Controller of Site Safety) and a lookout present when abseilers were being used.2021 May 5, Paul Stephen, “Restoring the glory of Ribblehead”, in RAIL, number 930, page 39. From the entry abseiler
• The Republic of China flag flying over an abandoned army lookout on Dadan (Tatan) Island part of Kinmen county also known as Quemoy.2021 July 26, “The 68 Olympians representing Chinese Taipei, a country that doesn’t really exist”, in Fox Sports (Australia), archived…. From the entry Tatan
• A mile in, he’s usually got one in each hand but is still on the lookout for an upgrade: anything smoother or more gunlike.2017 July 10, Lily Raff Mccaulou, “Confessions of a Sensible Gun Owner”, in The New York Times. From the entry gunlike
• Examples of the types of information disseminated at roll call include known warrants, “be on the lookouts” or BOLOs, runaways, and administrative requests and communications.2014, Kären M. Hess, Christine Hess Orthmann, Henry Lim Cho, Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, page 131. From the entry be on the lookout
• If we were reckless enough to risk being served up as "long pig" by the savages of Malekula, that was our lookout, not his.1968, Osa Johnson, I Married Adventure. From the entry long pig
• In order to reach the most advance lookout posts, I had to crawl to avoid being seen by machine gunners across the waters.1954 July, John C. Caldwell, “The Lost Christians of the China Coast”, in Christian Herald, volume 77, number 7, Christian Herald…. From the entry Liehyu
• Access to the veranda is by means of hinged doors, and a deep ducket or projection is provided on each side to form a lookout.1952 January, “British Railways Standard Wagons”, in Railway Magazine, page 59. From the entry ducket
• The mother is a spiritualist—has been for years—and, being on the lookout for it, naturally discovered what she calls 'mediumship' in Viola when a child.1905, Hamlin Garland, “Dr. Britt Explains”, in Tyranny of the Dark, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2008, page 70. From the entry mediumship
• We always strive to preserve our health and our lives, have a great need for security and protection and are constantly on the lookout to avoid danger.2021, Martin Luntig, Survival Instinct. From the entry survival instinct
• The warning given would be extra to the normal safety measures, safety and lookout men, plus ear protection and hard hats with built-in communication for all working on site.2020 February 26, “Open Access: Protecting track workers”, in Rail, pages 37–38. From the entry lookout man
• Roland Wood had already been passed over twice, so he was definitely on the lookout for that alkahestic ledger that would put him on the cutting edge of promotions.2006, Gene Lovell, Passing Grade, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry alkahestic
• Having been on the lookout for some specialty flours of late, I was told by a friend that all of King Arthur's commercial-grade flours are under hashgachah.2003 May 19, Lawrence Szenes-Strauss, “King Arthur Flour”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry hashgacha
• So Nit stood guard, pretending to be busy but keeping a lookout for the nuns, who were absent today, conclaving over who would take over Sister Patricia Margaret's stewardship.2002 February, Kay Kenyon, chapter 15, in Maximum Ice (A Bantam Spectra Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry conclave
• When we carry ourselves as far as we can and feel we can go no further, that's when we should be on the lookout for a God Wink.2002, SQuire D. Rushnell (sic), When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life, →ISBN. From the entry God wink
• The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry craft
• Below their lookout rim was the valley of Henry’s Fork, old trapper country, and the lodge of Jim Baker, a squawman who had established a ranch against the mountain.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN…. From the entry Wind River Mountains
• They eat the low vegetation cautiously and with eyes alert, constantly on the lookout for borhyaenids: pouched predators and relatives of marsupials with hyena-like crushing jaws and grooved, ever-growing canines.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63. From the entry borhyaenid

Meaning of lookout

1. noun A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
2. noun A session of watching for an approaching enemy, police, etc.
3. noun A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.

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Questions about lookout in a sentence

How do you use lookout in a sentence?

Lookout is used as a noun. For example: “We kept a lookout all night, but nobody came.”

What is a short sentence with lookout?

“Every person's interest is his own lookout.”

What does lookout mean?

Lookout means a vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.