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Example sentences for "leers"

Lexicographically close words:
leen; leer; leere; leered; leering; leery; lees; leese; leest; leeste
  1. Religion perks up through impiety, Law leers with license, folly wise-like frowns, The seemly lurks inside the abominable.

  2. No father or mother, no friend--a young girl at the mercy of soldiers, who could not be expected to regard her with any sympathy beyond that which is accompanied with repulsive leers and hints.

  3. He described the dreary and comfortless room in which Alice was confined, the miserable fare given her, and how she would be exposed to the leers and low remarks of the soldiers.

  4. She leans forward and leers up into the face of her Prodigal.

  5. Drawing a stool toward the table, he perches himself thereon and leers across at the two sneak thieves.

  6. Vile squats curse roaring pools inflame, A swarthy gump leers at the damn'd, A sultry storm invades each realm.

  7. On earth they plunder'd, robbed and stole From month to month and year to year; There Franchise-stealers cracked with leers As Plebeians stung, groaned with might.

  8. They stand like stones and stare at the sky Where the moon leers down like a half-closed eye.

  9. Next on the left, Lieutenant Field Marshal Otto moved by Leers and Watrelos, driving away a French post at Lis (near Lannoy) on his left flank, and entered Tourcoing.

  10. But meantime a French brigade had driven von dem Bussche away from Mouscron, so that Otto felt compelled to keep troops at Leers and Watrelos to protect his rear, which seriously weakened his hold on Tourcoing.


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