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Example sentences for "looked very"

  • And they said I had, and that I looked very nice.

  • Within, the ball-room, gay with flowers and draperies, with a waxed floor and many electric light in coloured globes, looked very pretty.

  • It looked very pretty, as it was filled with tropical ferns and plants and trees, illuminated with Chinese lanterns and made comfortable with numerous arm chairs, and plenty of small marble-topped tables.

  • He was dressed in a black morning suit, with an ordinary English shirt and collar: he looked very European, and his hands, on which were some beautiful rings, struck me as being singularly white.

  • He was a small dark man with a haughty expression, but he looked very ill.

  • The boy afterwards became a Court Page, but he looked very out of place among the Europeanized youngsters who swaggered about at the Palace.

  • He looked very foolish; and sat down in a corner without speaking.

  • We all three backed into the cave, very much frightened, for the teeth of the animal were enormous, and he looked very savage.

  • He looked very picturesque in the little square of green, and was apparently engrossed in his work as he didn't even turn his head to look at us.

  • Lottie, too, looked very well, but she passed so quickly I couldn't see what she had on.

  • Quantities of people--it looked very gay.

  • My aunt, patting her cat, looked very attentively at Agnes.

  • As our looks met, I observed that he was pale even to his lips, though he looked very steadily at me.

  • Robin, in her Madonna blue dress, looked very small in the stately drawing room.

  • The big rooms below, like her own room, looked very different in the morning light, even cheery.

  • To Dale he looked very boyish--with a little of Robin's own cherubic expression.

  • Mr. Tupman had no objection to earning the reputation at so cheap a rate: so he looked very knowing, and smiled mysteriously.

  • If that was the man, he looked very different on that occasion.

  • The streets were crowded to excess, apparently by strangers never seen here before, and it looked very threatening, indeed--very alarming.

  • I looked very earnestly, and with a good deal of solicitation, when the stones were thrown and pistol shots fired.

  • He looked very serious; and the skipper wondered if he had been charged with any other crime, his friend looked so coldly upon him.

  • It looked very shaky," said Corny; "but I didn't give it up at any time.

  • As for Umkopo himself, he looked very gratefully in my face, but he did not seem in the least overpowered by the fact that a white man was condescending to act as bearer to him.

  • It was Grandfather's voice, and he looked very angry as he took in the scene.

  • But Phil, knowing nothing of this, looked very downcast.

  • He looked very pale, but there was a set expression about his mouth and jaw which spoke volumes.

  • For a moment or two he looked very sad, and said in a sort of far away voice, as though saying it rather to himself than to me.

  • When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing.

  • He looked very sad, but did not reproach me.

  • He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must some of them, at all events.

  • When he saw the King on Monday his Majesty told him he looked very ill, and he replied that 'he did not know what was the matter with him, but that he was ill all over.

  • He looked very well, and was dressed in a blue great coat, all over gold frogs and embroidery.

  • The Guardia Nobile, commanded by Prince Barberini, looked very handsome, and all the troops en très-belle tenue.

  • Fitzclarence thought he looked very strange, but something in his manner forbade all questioning.

  • When he walked with Fay in the little lane behind the cottage he did not say much, but he looked very kindly at her.

  • He looked very grave, I thought, as he sat down beside me.

  • The door stood open for coolness, and the little square hall, with its Indian matting and rocking-chairs, looked very inviting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked very" 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:
    considered them; corresponding secretary; destructive fire; diligent student; looked across; looked again; looked around; looked back; looked down; looked forward; looked from; looked full; looked kind; looked like; looked more; looked out; looked quite; looked round; looked very; military posts; our common; particular account; pride and; raised from the dead; unclean thing; various kinds