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Example sentences for "looked around"

  • So he looked around for a place in which to hide, but just then he found himself in a field, and all that he could see were a whole lot of sunflowers growing near a fence.

  • So he looked around, and he saw a broom, which the busy bug had left behind when she finished sweeping.

  • It sounds like the elephant," said the rabbit, as he looked around for a safe place in which to hide in case it should happen to be the bear coming after him.

  • When I looked around, she was moving on the procession with an axe!

  • I looked around on the company with placid satisfaction, for I had slipped up on him gradually and tied him hand and foot, you see, without his ever noticing that he was being tied at all.

  • I looked around; he was nowhere to be seen.

  • I looked around a little at our surroundings, and could see the snow still drifting over the peak of the snowy mountain as we had seen it farther east, where we were ourselves under the burning sun.

  • We looked around to see if we could find something to do to earn a little for a start, but were not successful.

  • When the snow began to go off he looked around for a farm to rent for us and father to live on when he came, but he found none such as he needed.

  • Certainly, sir," said the lad quite unconsciously, and when Hale smothered a laugh, he looked around to see what had amused him.

  • When he looked around, the Red Fox was gone, and he had heard no sound of his going.

  • And he looked around with an anxious face; but Arthur was as pale as ashes, yet he spake nought, and Atra let her hand fall away from his.

  • Long she slumbered, for when she awoke it was broad day and the sun was shining high in the heavens, and she cleared her eyes and looked around, and saw before her the land, but yet blue in the offing.

  • I looked around me--there was nobody to be seen.

  • Well, at length we reached the summit of Mount Gut and, halting, looked around us.

  • I crept along the hollow through the thick grass--then I looked around: it was the end of the forest.

  • He looked around inquiringly in every direction, but apparently convinced that I had absconded, again walked away, but this time slowly, as if pondering on the startling information I had given him.

  • When I looked around, and fully comprehended the situation in which I had so unthinkingly placed myself, I saw little to give me consolation or encouragement.

  • He looked around on the spectators with a smile of triumph, then entered the miniature Pandemonium, apparently without having received injury.

  • He looked around, felt something hard hit him, and then went under once more.

  • Then he looked around again, but the deck of the Mermaid appeared to be deserted.

  • We got there, looked around, made a search, and here we are.

  • I looked around me, and perceived that many men were busy in erecting a scaffolding.

  • Captain Toplift received him on deck, and he looked around him, saying, "I believe I am right.

  • He looked around vaguely, as though he wanted to go.

  • The young man rose, looked around with a mysterious air, approached the surgeon, and laid the money across his knee.

  • Upon stumbling weakly into the room, faint with the labor of walking and of carrying the iron ball, he looked around eagerly, like a bear driven to his haunches by the hounds.

  • I looked around me, to assure myself that the scene was real.

  • I felt this antipathy strongly as I looked around me in my new sleeping-room, and yet I could find no reasonable pretext for my dislike.

  • As I did so I looked around me, and a most unaccountable repugnance to my temporary abode came over me, in spite of my efforts.

  • He looked around in some surprise, seeing that Kakusuké still maintained his position, although dismissed.

  • He looked around in amazement--"They were taken with pains in the belly.

  • He looked around as one waking from a dream.

  • I thought he would be pleased at my joking with him, but he looked around as though he was seeking a revolver or a saber with which to kill me finnally he said: "What do you want, man?

  • From that position I looked around to see what was going on, and tried to attract the attention of some attendant.

  • Every once in a while he looked around, to see if anybody was observing him.

  • Then he looked around to see that there was no other water around the building.

  • We've looked around, but we couldn't see a thing," pursued the woman.

  • The second Simeon climbed the column, looked around, listened to all sounds, and came down.

  • As I looked around me I saw nothing but the great horizon which surrounded us.

  • I looked around, and saw a queer-looking structure, built of slabs of stone plastered over.

  • As I looked around, I could see snow, snow, deep snow everywhere.

  • What a strange abode these nomadic Lapps have," I said to myself, as I looked around inside of the tent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked around" 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:
    after years; asked you; closely resembles; criminal justice; even whilst; ever experienced; exactly what; faint blush; finite number; import duties; looked about; looked across; looked again; looked down; looked kind; looked more; looked out; looked round; parliamentary reform; porcelain kettle; saline matter; she hath; since their; slave time; soft steel; venereal infection