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Example sentences for "away look"

  • And into her eyes came a far-away look, while her lips quivered as if with pain.

  • And still the judge's face was rigid, and his eyes had in them a fixed far-away look.

  • And there was a far-away look in her eyes.

  • Her father was sitting near with a far-away look in his eyes.

  • But there is a far-away look in his eyes, and sometimes he gives such a start when I speak to him.

  • She had come to love the lad with all his quaint ways and dreamy far-away look.

  • These were the thoughts which had been beating through his brain for days, giving him at times that listless manner, far-away look, and lack of interest in his studies, which worried Nellie so much.

  • He paused and drew hard on his pipe, with that far-away look in his eyes which the Babe had learned to regard as the forerunner to a story.

  • Well, not as you might say intimately," answered Uncle Andy, with a far-away look in his grey eyes.

  • The Corporal seemed indifferent, and stood with the far-away look in his eyes as if he were already busy with some other plans or worries.

  • You know what these South Americans are--" with a wink at the Lieutenant that was meant also for Castillo, who stood with his felt hat on the back of his head and a far-away look in his eyes.

  • And again she spoke to him in the same far-away voice, with the same far-away look in her eyes.

  • Her great, wide eyes had a far-away look as if they saw some tragedy, the shadow of which would never fall from her.

  • Job sat with a far-away look in his eyes.

  • Against the well-worn post of this plain, unpainted old hut she leaned with a far-away look in her eyes.

  • As she turned the bend of the road, Job stood there leaning on the fence with a far-away look.

  • The amber clouds were beginning to gather round the dying sun, and Kirsty sat watching the cloudland scene with a far-away look in her tranquil gray eyes.

  • After they were all cleared away, she lay quietly back on the sofa, and there was a far-away look in her eyes that made her father unwilling to ask where her thoughts were.

  • But there was a far-away look in her eyes which seemed to betoken that it was a mental picture which absorbed her.

  • For a few seconds there was a far-away look in his eyes, then evidently he came to a decision.

  • Again he was silent for a few seconds, and noting the far-away look in his eyes, I waited in silence.

  • I am convinced there will be a battle royal between me and that man,' he said, and there was a far-away look in his eyes.

  • I uttered the name suddenly, impressively, and I thought I saw his lips tremble, and certainly his eyes had a far-away look.

  • Sir Richard, I am going to ask a favour of you," she said, with a far-away look in her eyes.

  • His face was certainly paler than usual, and there was a far-away look in his eyes that showed me that it was not the canal or the houses opposite that he was looking upon.

  • There was a far-away look on his handsome face that told me that he was recalling some of the events connected with the time when he had been in Nikola's company.

  • Then I did tell them about the beautiful love the man of the long step that whistles most all of the time does have for the pensee girl with the far-away look in her eyes.

  • I did have hears of them saying of the pensee girl with the far-away look in her eyes, that is come again to visit her aunt of the gray calico dress with the black bow at its neck.

  • Lady Esmondet wishes Lionel could see the sweet face, and the far-away look in the great expressive eyes.

  • Bijou, with her head bent, and a far-away look in her eyes, seemed to be in a dream, quite oblivious of what was going on around her.

  • Jean de Blaye was sitting motionless in a large arm-chair; there was an impassive expression on his face, and a far-away look in his eyes.

  • Still all seemed to be well to the casual observer, although at times her eyes had that far-away look of those who are crossed in love, or whose livers are out of order.

  • Several of the older men pushed back their plates and began drumming oh the table-cloth with their fingers, a far-away look in their eyes.

  • Now and then he has sprung from his seat for a farther-away look at his sketch.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "away look" 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:
    away again; away back; away down; away from; away home; away look; away they; away with; brings about; chloral hydrate; cover tightly; dark chamber; found dead; gone before; half slave and half; high opinion; high resistance; little back; mile point; moral agency; others will; reason upon; spinal nerves; three words; waste places; who should