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Example sentences for "looking forward"

  • It was the evening of the Saundersons' dance, to which for weeks she had been looking forward, and she was desperately anxious to look pretty.

  • But all the time I've been away I've been so looking forward to seeing you again.

  • I'm looking forward to it frightfully; and I know you'll be an awful dear to me.

  • I was saying to our little April only yesterday: 'How Roland will be looking forward to it.

  • Looking forward to the future, it seems that increased exploration, which is resulting from the present premium on gold, is likely to bring in new reserves to increase production.

  • It is likewise true that governments, looking forward to the future of the nation, and without the necessity of paying so much attention to interest and taxes, are not so limited by this consideration.

  • Looking forward to the future, it is clear that there will be considerable shifts in the centers of principal production of petroleum in the directions indicated by the reserve figures.

  • Your notes will be most valuable to me and I am looking forward to their arrival.

  • From the oratory of the recess and the rumours of reconstruction Lord Randolph hurried away upon an expedition to which he had for some months past been looking forward.

  • You cannot think how people are looking forward to your return here; they feel quite jealous of all you are doing and have done in Ireland.

  • It is not to the wedding I am looking forward with so much happiness, but to the loving husband I shall gain thereby, and the future happy life I shall spend with him.

  • Not yet, Dexie, but I am looking forward to the 'seventh heaven' you speak of.

  • I shall always be looking forward to that time, Dexie, so remember your promise.

  • Dreda, looking forward to the future, resolved to be less egotistical, less confident, to consider more tenderly the feelings of her companions.

  • It was indeed a grey wintry afternoon, and he was by no means averse to sitting by this cheery fire, looking forward to tea and further conversation with "Miss Golden-locks.

  • I am looking forward to it fearfully much.

  • I was looking forward to the old lady giving me a snack of breakfast.

  • But that's looking forward,'; the boy pounced on the mistake.

  • Age is first realised when, instead of looking forward only, he surprises thought in the act of looking--behind.

  • I need scarcely tell you that I am looking forward to it with great pleasure, and that our meeting will be to me the only joy after long trouble.

  • I am looking forward to our meeting in November.

  • I am looking forward to it with immense pleasure, and shall use it for learning English after all.

  • Perhaps there is no period of this mortal life so truly happy as that in which all our thoughts are occupied in looking forward to some great joy to come.

  • You remember that day when you left the Grange, how happy I was, looking forward to my husband's return, and thinking of the good news I had to tell him.

  • I call it very serious business; and I'm looking forward to winning the deepest gratitude of the English public--or at least as much of the English public as you can cram into your garden, my dear.

  • Lord and Lady Rocksavage, Lady Diana Manners, and many other prominent people are to be among the guests, and I am looking forward to the luncheon eagerly.

  • I am looking forward eagerly to meeting Cami, the famous French cartoonist.

  • I am looking forward to this Saturday, Sunday, and Monday as an intellectual holiday.

  • I can scarcely tell you how I am looking forward to it," Betty answered.

  • She is beginning to look happier and younger already, and is looking forward to the day when Rosy and the boy will come home to visit us, and when we shall go in state to Stornham Court.

  • But I'm looking forward to a Shandy porterhouse steak, all the same.

  • And there had been an acrid consolation in looking forward to the relief of venting one's self on a woman who dare not resent.

  • Let me hallow all life's duties and engagements with Thy favor, looking forward to that time when my will and Thine, blessed God!

  • Looking forward to that time when all Thy inscrutable dealings will be unfolded, when inner meanings and purposes now undiscerned by the eye of sense will be brought to light, and all discovered to be full of infinite love.

  • Looking forward to meeting his wife, who would probably be equally pleasing, Elsie felt that in any event she should be as happy between visits as it would be possible to be anywhere without Elsie Moss.

  • Looking forward, she began to speculate on the possibility of starting anew after finances were once straightened out.

  • Looking forward to that companionship gave her patience to endure many a difficult hour which perchance she had not endured otherwise.

  • I am looking forward to that very much indeed.

  • He was incapable of looking forward to anything else.

  • When the Christmas term is over we are to spend some days with quite a number of leading literary lights, to whose conversation I am looking forward.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking forward" 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:
    human conduct; looking about; looking after; looking animal; looking around; looking craft; looking earnestly; looking face; looking fellows; looking girl; looking like; looking more; looking much; looking north; looking person; looking personage; looking south; looking steadily; looking unto; looking woman; looking young; public road; qui lui; sensual pleasure; several letters; south side