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Example sentences for "looked about"

  • I looked about for a piano to give me a note to start on.

  • I looked about me and noticed that the room had very little furniture; there was only the table at which the Prefect sat and two or three plain chairs.

  • I looked about for my companion, but could not see her anywhere.

  • When I came down from my apartment in the tree, I looked about me again, and the first thing I found was the boat, which lay as the wind and the sea had tossed her up upon the land, about two miles on my right hand.

  • As he spoke he looked about him up and down, and ended by uttering another sharp exclamation, for in one place there was a rugged patch of rock just like the fragments we held, and seeming as if the cliff-side there was one solid mass.

  • Nothing now could have induced him to enter that bewildering labyrinth again, and he looked about with a shudder, for the day was sinking to its close, and the night would soon be upon him.

  • Luckily for the denizens of that ominous place, none of them were there to bar his entrance, for he was in a grim mood, so making a bonfire of some of the mats, he looked about.

  • When I got there I looked about; I could see nothing.

  • For a long time I looked about in all directions, but could see nothing, but then I could not see far, for there were other little hills, nearly as high, close to me.

  • He looked about for a place to lie down, and found a little bunch of brush behind a small bank, and there unbelted his robe and lay down to sleep for a little while.

  • At first he lay as if dead, but after a time he lived again, and, standing up, looked about him.

  • Ah," he said, as he looked about, "a person is somewhere close by.

  • As he looked about, he saw hanging down above him a great thing that seemed to move--to grow a little larger and then to grow a little smaller.

  • Some of it comes back to me now," said the patient, as he looked about him as if to ascertain where he was; for his companion had not informed him on this point.

  • I feel better," said he very faintly, as he looked about him, and seemed to be bewildered.

  • I looked about me--and smiled as I saw the impossibility of any escape.

  • Everything was as I had left it before I had been summoned to the mysterious Chapel of the Cross and Star,--and I looked about me, tranquillised by the peace and simplicity of my surroundings.

  • Presently Umslopogaas seemed to recover from the kind of faint into which he had fallen and opening his eyes, looked about him.

  • I looked about me, east and west and north.

  • I looked about me, seeking Umslopogaas and Hans.

  • I looked about me for Ayesha, but she had gone, where to I knew not, though at the moment I feared that she must have been killed in the mêlée.

  • I, who have the nicest taste in such matters, looked about me in dismay as I encountered the greens and blues, the crimsons and the purples which everywhere surrounded me.

  • Miss Althorpe, deeply troubled, looked about her as if for guidance.

  • But Howard, shrugging his shoulders as if relieved of an immense weight, looked about with a cheerful air, and briskly cried: "Then it is not the body of my wife you have there.

  • Ibarra became restless; he looked about in search of some corner, but the church was full.

  • Ibarra, surprised, not knowing what to say, looked about him.

  • The Hindu had not entirely lost his senses; and when he was disburdened of the load of salt water he had swallowed, he looked about him, though still in a somewhat dazed condition.

  • I am told that our cabin waiter and four coolies were picked up by the other steamer," said Lord Tremlyn, as he looked about him.

  • It is a good place to see everything there is to be seen," suggested Louis, as he looked about him.

  • Whereupon I looked about me, too, and tried to get a stranger's impression of the place.

  • Somewhat dashed, I looked about me in quest of proof that they were lying to me.

  • And as he came down the porch steps he looked about him, but dully, with sick and uninforming eyes, but with a livened interest in all familiar homely things.

  • When he reached the top of the stairs he looked about.

  • Mr. Neal was happy, and he looked about him to find other happy faces.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked about" 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:
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