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Example sentences for "looking down"

  • Looking down, she recognised Kit, whose endeavours to attract her attention had roused her from her sad reflections.

  • Mr Brass, breaking the silence, and raising his eyes to the ceiling with a sigh, 'Who knows but he may be looking down upon us now!

  • Looking down, she could see thin wreaths of smoke, rising from the ground.

  • She stood erect, looking down at him while seeming to be absorbed in the rearrangement of her hair, feeling a little ashamed of herself.

  • Joan hardly recognized herself in the serene, self-confident young woman who seemed to be looking down upon a world at her feet.

  • His first impulse to lift her up was arrested by something in her attitude, and he stood quite still, looking down at her, his face suddenly drawn and very weary.

  • Gillian bent over the rail, looking down at the phosphorescent water breaking away from the steamer's bow.

  • He took it in his and held it a moment, looking down at its slim whiteness.

  • I had casually dropped in on him for a chat; and he stood, with his hands behind him stretched to the blaze, looking down at me.

  • The Captain, looking down, found that he had been boarded by Mr Toots while sweeping the horizon.

  • Oh yes," said she in a low voice, looking down at her needlework.

  • He was now standing, looking down at the crowd with a deeply knit brow and menacing gaze.

  • Paula, looking down in distress and confusion; but she presently looked up and exclaimed with angry determination: "How dare they keep from me that which is my own?

  • She was silent for a little, looking down.

  • Then, with real courage she had advanced, and, looking down at the little girl with a fearful smile, had tickled the door with the handle of her green parasol.

  • And, looking down, Gyp answered: "Thank you.

  • Having seen his father into a hansom, young Jolyon came back to the drawing-room and stood, where old Jolyon had stood, looking down on the little garden.

  • I have seen him oftener," said the damsel, looking down; "but I have only spoken to him once.

  • He confessed, looking down, that he had not been in Alaska, and he had no desire to go there.

  • And she paused a moment, looking down in an innocent perplexity.

  • Gilbert, looking down at the fluffs and frills.

  • Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always.

  • I suppose that very moon is looking down on Green Gables now," she mused.

  • That is, I would not vex thee by my folly, and I might forget it," replied Christina, looking down.

  • Often he found her at night seated by the window in the dark alone, looking down on the city below.

  • Rose, looking down at him with great approval as he stood patting Rosa's glossy neck.

  • Rose, looking down at her little knight as he clung about her with grateful ardor.

  • Nostromo, looking down with a sort of comic inquisitiveness at the unconscious old man.

  • Nostromo, looking down, saw tears beginning to fall down her face.

  • She pressed both his hands, and the doctor stood as if rooted to the spot, looking down at her, and trying to twist his lips into a smile.

  • Or throw ourselves into those new clothes, so as to be ready," added the younger Kearney, looking down at his ragged trousers.

  • I reckon you're right," he said, looking down.

  • But Uncle William held it a moment, looking down at it.

  • Uncle William leaned over, looking down at him reproachfully.

  • She clawed at his shoulder and perched there, looking down at him.

  • He held her hand, looking down at her kindly.

  • He took the girl's face between his hands, looking down into it with gentle delight.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking down" 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:
    belligerent rights; drive from; infectious diseases; kill myself; looking away; looking craft; looking down; looking face; looking for; looking glass; looking hard; looking individual; looking like; looking much; looking out; looking person; looking personage; looking place; looking south; looking through; looking towards; looking unto; menstruous woman; mighty glad; whoever thou; would grant