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Example sentences for "gazed"

Lexicographically close words:
gayne; gaz; gazabo; gaze; gazebo; gazelle; gazelles; gazer; gazers; gazes
  1. Great men who have fallen do not ordinarily like to be sought out or gazed at.

  2. When I had gazed at them for a considerable time I turned the teapot round, and on the other side I observed marks of a similar kind, which I soon discovered were identical with the ones I had been observing.

  3. I could see that Mrs. Petulengro gazed on Belle with unmixed admiration, so did her husband.

  4. As I gazed upon his countenance it brought powerfully to my mind the face which, by the light of the candle, I had seen staring over me on the preceding night, when lying in bed and half asleep.

  5. I gazed upon him for some time, expecting that he might awake; but he did not, but kept on snoring, his breast heaving convulsively.

  6. She never looked for it in him, but gazed in upon herself in a sort of pregnancy of the soul.

  7. He gazed at Matilda as he could not recollect ever having gazed at a woman, critically, but with warm interest.

  8. Whenever he spoke she gazed at him with a rapt stupid expression and the last few words of his sentences were upon her lips almost before they left his.

  9. Matilda was warmly embraced, while her companion stood shyly by and gazed round him at the shabby scenery and the footlights and the hanging lamps over his head.

  10. They suddenly caught his eye and he gazed at them long and carefully.

  11. He sat with a glow of satisfaction as he gazed at his hood and mortar-board and thought of Panoukian.

  12. He gazed at her and saw in her the comfortable, easy, hovering present.

  13. With something of both contempt and envy the stately young woman who had received them gazed after this vision of wealth and insolence.

  14. When all these acquisitions came home she laid them out on her bed and gazed at them in alarm and pleasure.

  15. For a moment she gazed at him almost with pleading in her eyes, and then she governed herself, stood before him almost assertively and repeated: "Alone.

  16. Men and women stood around and behind him and gazed up.

  17. Augustus gazed at her in undisguised admiration.

  18. It was inexplicable that as Margaret Elizabeth gazed up at the general the eyes beneath the stern brows should become the eyes of the Candy Man.

  19. The big surgeon gazed about him with appreciative eyes, touched his mustache to his gold-lined coffee-cup, and sighed contentedly.

  20. There was a pause in which the three gazed idly at the fire's reflection in the brass of the superb old andirons Then, "Haven't you something new to show us?

  21. Unseen bright eyes gazed at him from behind tree-trunks, and the branches were populous with invisible, kindly listeners.

  22. Even when she finished drawing the design with her own fingers, she gazed at it incredulously, not daring to believe that it could indeed be her handiwork.

  23. When he had quavered through the last note he let the pipes fall and gazed about him with a smile, like a happy old child.

  24. Scarcely to her, for she only gazed silent at the stars as he talked.

  25. She gazed at the glittering stars, and thought of the shining circle on the brow of the dead priest, when they flew over the forest and the morass.

  26. She gazed outwards upon the bright twinkling stars that glittered in the heavens.

  27. Many thousand human beings gazed up at the balloon, and the old maid gazed among the rest.

  28. She suffered her arms to sink, and gazed with wondering looks and blanched cheeks upon the man whom she deemed some mighty wizard, strong in sorcery and the black art.

  29. The magic dragon, who was watching over his treasures, raised his head and gazed at them.

  30. He had gazed upon the case, and not thought of what was in it; and this is unfortunate, very unfortunate, in the marriage state.

  31. With tearful eyes and melancholy looks her afflicted family gazed at her.

  32. As he gazed at his sister great tears coursed down his dark cheeks and splashed on the hands which so tenderly clasped his own.

  33. They at length climbed the commanding bluff overlooking the majestic river, and as they gazed out on the undulating and uninterrupted area of green, their hearts beat high with hope.

  34. Brother and sister gazed with dark, sad eyes into the fire, now burned down to a glowing bed of coals.

  35. Those dark eyes, so proud to all others, but which gazed wistfully and yearningly into his, stirred his heart to its depths.

  36. He gazed thoughtfully into the fire, slowly the while untying the belt which contained his knife and tomahawk.

  37. With a proud and disdainful look Isaac gazed straight before him and paid no heed to his tormentor.

  38. A smile transformed his face and his gray eyes gazed steadily into hers.

  39. Betty gazed into the hunter's eyes and then into Alfred's.

  40. Alfred gazed at her, conscious that all his hopes of happiness were dependent on the next few words that would issue from her smiling lips.

  41. Just then Alfred turned and gazed full into Betty's eyes.

  42. He lay back against the grassy bank and gazed dreamily at the many hued trees on the little hillside; at the bare rugged sides of McColloch's Rock which frowned down upon them.

  43. Admiring women stood around him and gazed at his wife.

  44. And the man Ortmann--known as Horton since the outbreak of war--gazed upon it and saw the cog-wheels slowly revolving.

  45. This is the little contrivance of which I spoke," said Drost gleefully, as he gazed upon it in admiration.

  46. Silas gazed straight up at Jill while she was speaking, and a queer, very mournful smile lingered round his lips.

  47. The girl gazed after them, her black eyes wide-open, her lips slightly parted, an eager, hungry expression all over her face.

  48. Poll Robinson lay in bed and gazed around her.

  49. Poll thrust her hands deep into the big pockets of her gay apron, and gazed around her.

  50. I gazed at the same picture on the monastery wall, I felt again all the old, impotent rebellion against injustice and misplaced power.

  51. I'll wear anything you like," said he with a sudden accession of meekness, so unexpected that I was alarmed for his health, and gazed at him closely to see if he were on the verge of a collapse.

  52. As she thus prescribed for my symptoms, she gazed through her talc window with marked particularity into her "Lightning Conductor's" un-goggled face.

  53. Over the steep grey roofs (pointed like monkish hands with finger-tips joined in prayer) we gazed up at mountain peaks, grey and green, and pointing also to a heaven which seemed strangely near.

  54. Driving down to the low bridge across the river, we gazed up at the town piled high above our heads, culminating in a fortress which, cut in a dark square out of the sky's turquoise, looked old as the beginning of the world.

  55. We looked over the balustrade to see a battalion of soldiers marching at ease, on their way back from some mountain manoeuvres, and as we gazed down, they stared up, a young fellow shouting to the Boy that he had better join them.

  56. He also gazed at me, but his look lacked the curiosity with which I honoured him.

  57. And her hair stirred on her forehead as she gazed at the small object lying in the palm of my hand, proving to me that she saw again before her all the horrors of the house from which it had been taken.

  58. I took her hand, to comfort her; but she drew it away, and gazed upon it with a kind of shrinking horror.

  59. We came to the beginning of the narrow strait which severs Ile Royale from the main peninsula of Acadie; and with longing eyes Mizpah gazed across, as if hoping to discern the child amid the trees of the opposite shore.

  60. For some moments Grul gazed down in silence upon his victim.

  61. Having run some dozen paces he stopped, turned, and gazed steadily upon Grul for perhaps the space of a full minute.

  62. Then, while I gazed upon her in rapt commiseration, she all at once resumed the paddle briskly.

  63. Just as I gurgled the gumbo nocturne down my thirsty throat, a shrill burst of brazen clangour (this is not tautological) in the orchestra roused me from my dream, and I gazed on the stage.

  64. Flaubert, his face turned to the past, his feet to the future, gazed sorrowfully at Carthage and wrote an epic of the bourgeois.

  65. Where he had gazed out of wide doors and windows at life, he now gazed through keyholes, and despised himself for so doing.

  66. Gordon gazed with miserable reflection at the dog.

  67. Clemency gazed at him with a puzzled, almost suspicious, look.

  68. He gazed down it hopelessly, and saw a little dark figure running toward him.

  69. The captain gazed for a minute into mother's face, then looked from her to father, from him to uncle Rutherford, and drew a long breath.

  70. She changed her position listlessly, and gazed out of the window.

  71. She raised her head and looked timidly at the figure opposite, pale as a spectre, half lying, half lolling in his leathern chair, while he sucked his lozenge, and gazed before him with downcast eyes.

  72. The pictures on the walls gazed at her with Reynold's eyes, his presence haunted the house from which he had been banished.

  73. She gazed helplessly in remorseful pain; he was only a chilly phantom; the very fierceness of his passion was but a dying spark of fire.

  74. She gazed upon the familiar places, the homesteads and the solitary homes.

  75. He sat himself down on one of the hen-coops, and gazed on us with a ghastly eye.

  76. I was gazed at as a wild beast; and the children, as they sat on their mother's shoulders to look at me, received a moral lesson and a warning at my expense.

  77. Her eyes again gazed on me, sparkling with gratitude and love, after all she had gone through.

  78. I was astonished at their apparent want of feeling; while they gazed with surprise at the sight of me, and the symbols of woe displayed in my equipment.

  79. I well remember the feelings of awe and wonder with which I gazed when taken in childhood to see "the glove brought in" and placed over the guildhall of my native city (Exeter) at the commencement of "Lammas Fair.

  80. On awaking at last he gazed round with an astonished, puzzled look, and sighed deeply.

  81. Now and then I stopped and gazed up at them, admiring their beauty, and thinking how greatly increased must be our powers of comprehension before we should understand all about them.

  82. They could not understand that salt water was worse than no water at all; nor could the poor sheep, probably, when they were brought up on deck, and gazed out on the glittering ocean around them.

  83. And with a sound of tearing grass, And puffing breath that awful was, And horns of frightful size, A cow looked through the broken hedge, And gazed down on her from the edge, With great big Juno eyes.

  84. A look of sorrowing doubt the youth's face wore; And the two hounds half-rose, and gazed at him, Eyeing his countenance by the taper dim.

  85. She lay and gazed at the flowers, Till her soul's own garden smiled With blossom-o'ershaded bowers, Great colours and splendours wild.

  86. Backward he drew his head, and did not speak, But gazed with large deep eyes angelical Upon her face.

  87. She withdrew; she gazed with an asking fear; He stood with a face ghost-white.

  88. And as I reached this point in my reflections, my mind instinctively wanders to a monument I gazed at in Salt Lake City cemetery but a few days ago.

  89. Fully twenty-five thousand people passed the coffin and gazed for a moment in sadness upon the countenance of the noble man they had learned to trust and love as one of God's most distinguished servants, a friend and leader.

  90. After dinner the Count slept, and, the day being bright, they stepped out into a large balcony and gazed at the view.

  91. The deck-hands and several passengers, who happened to be strolling about the lower deck, now collected around and gazed on the lock with curious eyes.

  92. The window was raised about two feet, it being a warm night, and he gazed wistfully out into the sombre darkness.

  93. He was much elated with the idea of going to sea, and, as we sailed from port, and he gazed out upon the endless expanse before us, he was perfectly enraptured.

  94. The Gypsy queen gazed at her with lowering brows; but Laura Belding neither "shivered nor shook.

  95. With her dark complexion and high color she was indeed a striking figure as she stood there, hands on her hips, and panting slightly as she gazed back bravely into Miss Carrington's spectacled eyes.

  96. They all gazed up at the half-frightened girls.

  97. The other girls came running and gazed in the direction she pointed out.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gazed" 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:
    gazed around; gazed down; gazed upon