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Example sentences for "looking rather"

  • A little English schoolboy was sauntering along the quay, looking rather bored.

  • Over a second hedge I scrambled, across a meadow with sleeping cows and calves, which rose at my approach, looking rather ghostly as they crowded together in a bunch.

  • Grace took the paper, looking rather perplexed, and read: "Ask Miss Harlowe what she was doing in your office between half past one and a quarter of two yesterday.

  • It is very foolish of me," she says, looking rather ashamed, "but I cannot sleep for fright.

  • I am glad she is gone," says Esther, looking rather embarrassed, "as I have something to say to you.

  • Did you," inquires the old lady, looking rather suspiciously at her, "have any quarrel or disagreement with the Gerards during your visit which could render you unwilling to meet any one in any way connected with their family?

  • He stood at the end of the room, looking rather sheepish.

  • So he walked off, looking rather black, followed by his brothers, Pat, to tell the truth, by no means sorry at the turn that things had taken.

  • They were not as late as Miss Ward had laid her account to their perhaps being, still, schoolroom tea was half over before Justin and Pat made their appearance, and both came in looking rather cross.

  • The slender, handsome boy, looking rather fine-drawn, but with something of the turn of limb of a thoroughbred racehorse, came into the goal and was duly greeted by his admirers.

  • Dan, looking rather anxious as he put the question.

  • Sorry I hurt you, old fellow," explained Dan, looking rather ashamed of himself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking rather" 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:
    been wondering; curious anecdote; external violence; like fruit; looking after; looking ahead; looking east; looking house; looking individual; looking like; looking man; looking over; looking person; looking personage; looking place; looking rather; looking south; looking steadily; looking unto; looking west; looking woman; looking youth; mission schools; readers will; still existing; that not