Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "looking upon"

  • Looking upon Zed, I felt ashamed to be a man.

  • Looking upon them, I stepped into another world.

  • Looking upon him, they felt they were getting their money's worth.

  • He looking upon them to be thrice the value of that sum, lent me freely the quantity of mony propounded, and in my sight took the Goods and laid them in a place next his Bed-chamber.

  • He was startled at the sight, closed the door, which had nothing to secure it but a latch, and got up as fast as he could to the top of the palm-tree; looking upon that as the safest retreat under his present apprehensions.

  • Scipio accepted the duty, and, looking upon himself as in a quasi-royal position, devoted his whole time to this business, as long as the army remained in Macedonia after the battle of Pydna.

  • Already my dirk had ceased to give me satisfaction in looking upon it, and my uniform, that two days before I thought so bewitching, I had, a few hours since, been informed was to be soiled by a foul anchor.

  • He was particularly sorry that he saw no blood, from which symptom he argued the worst-looking upon me as a dead man, being certain that I was bleeding inwardly.

  • I was taught the hard lesson of looking upon cruelty as my daily bread, tears as my daily drink, and scorn as my natural portion.

  • Let me first take my fill of looking upon thee; let me sate mine eyes with that sweet face of thine.

  • The young lady, who took pleasure in looking upon him, soon perceived this and to give him more assurance, showed herself exceeding well pleased therewith, as indeed she was.

  • Looking upon it in this light, action at a distance can be accounted for in a very natural manner.

  • And also to show how our notions of the interior of the nebula first, and afterwards of the sun, are simplified and made more natural by looking upon it as a hollow sphere.

  • And, looking upon her, Ormiston yearned in spirit over this beautiful woman who had borne such grievous sorrows, and who, as he feared, had sorrow yet more grievous still to bear.

  • And, looking upon them, recognising the spirit which animated them, he was taken with a reverence and sympathy for average, toiling humanity unfelt by him before.

  • And, looking upon her, it became Ludovic Quayle's turn to find the evening wind somewhat bleak and barren.

  • Helen paused, looking upon him, and that look had in it a delicate affinity to a caress.

  • He sent his servant away, but instead of lying down, he sate, looking upon a parchment, which he held in his hand, while the bells of the city slowly told out the creeping hours.

  • And here was his old friend, the keenest-sighted woman he knew, looking upon it simply as literary material--a ridiculous social event.

  • But Jesus looked upon him as if looking upon a stranger, and made him such answer as to shew that he perceived his treachery; whereat Judas drew back, they said, as one distraught.

  • He put the Thebans in mind of Epaminondas, the Athenians of Pericles, who always took their own measures and governed their actions by reason, looking upon things of this kind as mere pretexts for cowardice.

  • This is the sense in which many learned men understand the word Assur, looking upon it as the name of a province, and not of the first man who possessed it, as if it were, egressus est in Assur, in Assyriam.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking upon" 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:
    and came; constant source; keep company; looking about; looking ahead; looking away; looking back; looking creature; looking down; looking earnestly; looking face; looking fellow; looking forward; looking hard; looking man; looking over; looking personage; looking place; looking rather; looking steadily; looking unto; looking woman; plural marriage; social welfare; soil erosion; state government