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Example sentences for "look through"

  • Then place the eye close behind the smooth side of the glass plate, look through it at a candle, and you will perceive three fine haloes at different distances, encircling the flame.

  • I think whenever you have time to look through it, you will think the collection of facts on the elevation of the land and on the formation of terraces pretty good.

  • I called on him two or three times before the voyage of the "Beagle", and on one occasion he asked me to look through a microscope and describe what I saw.

  • In order to experience these influences completely, the eye should be entirely surrounded with one colour; we should be in a room of one colour, or look through a coloured glass.

  • If we look through a tube, the farther end of which is contracted or variously indented, the same colours appear.

  • To look through plate-glass windows, and pity the brown soldiers,--or sneer at the black ones?

  • Just so, when I look through my telescope I see the star-dust whirling about in the infinite expanse of ether; or if I do not see its motion, I know that it is only on account of its immeasurable distance.

  • When he was listening to common talk, he was in the habit of looking over his spectacles; if he lifted his head so as to look through them at the person talking, he was busier with that person's thoughts than with his words.

  • Emerson hardly knew his privilege; he may have been the first American to look through an immersion lens with the famous Modena professor.

  • Holding this tube in the left hand, look through it with the left eye, the right eye also being kept open.

  • Too much time would be required to look through all of these cards every time information is desired about a given publication; a more condensed record of total results should be provided.

  • The letter is practically lost, for there is no way to locate it except to look through all of the folders until it is found.

  • Look through it at something distant, and it seems to draw it near.

  • How much less then will you be able to look through both at once.

  • There's the master's tallow scoop; he give me a look through it once, and there was the moon all covered with spots o' grease like you see on soup sometimes.

  • But when the poor old man tried to look through them, again he cried out in fright: "I see nothing but swirling waters and flashing fins!

  • But when the poor old man tried to look through them, again he cried out in fright: "I see nothing but tangled underbrush and snapping teeth and hot red tongues!

  • But when the poor old man tried to look through them, he cried out in fright: "I see nothing but dark treetops with sleeping birds and flying bats!

  • The opposite role is played by the atmosphere when we look through it to the sun.

  • Such a case is the appearance of yellow and blue when we look through a clouded transparent medium towards a source of light or to a black background.

  • It is exactly the same when we look through a vessel filled with water and see the bottom of it as if raised in level.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "look through" 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:
    comparative mythology; look ahead; look around; look away; look back; look like; look straight; looked across; looked for; looked quite; looked very; looking about; looking back; looking down; looking for; looking girl; looking individual; looking much; looking over; looking steadily; looking towards; looking woman; looking young; looks back; military academy; show cause