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Example sentences for "looking very"

  • I should like to see anyone trying on those tricks with me," exclaimed Digby, looking very fierce, "I would soon show them what I was made of!

  • After prayers Dr Graham stood up in his desk, looking very grave.

  • Duc d'Orleans returned to the ecclesiastics, looking very small, and not knowing what to do between his daughter and them.

  • Duc arrived soon after, and entered the cabinet where he saw the King, looking very sad, his eyes red and tearful.

  • One day, after dinner, he came in with his face tied up, looking very red in the cheeks and heavy about the eyes.

  • One of the servants came in, looking very blank, and said to the poor relation, "The well is gone dry; we have nothing but rainwater.

  • Presently she came down, looking very pretty in her half-mourning bonnet, and carrying a school-book in her hand.

  • In the farther corner two were kicking at each other as opportunity offered, looking very angry, but not daring to cry.

  • The moon neither shook her head nor moved her lips, but turned as on a pivot, and stood with her back to her husband, looking very miserable.

  • There, to my astonishment, I saw Jamie Duff, as I thought, looking very happy, and in the act of lifting a spoon to his mouth.

  • At the end of those three hours Mr Hallam passed, looking very thoughtful, and five minutes later James Thickens went home to his gold-fish and tea.

  • She rose from her chair, looking very resolute.

  • Then words of reproof and sharp retort could be heard outside; and after a while poor Mrs Luttrell came back looking very red, to lean over the curate from behind the sofa, brooding over him as if he were a favourite chicken.

  • On they went, Miss Bennett leading the way to the schoolroom, where, as she had conjectured, they found Jessie, looking very gravely.

  • Yes," said William, looking very boldly at his uncle, "and I think she was very right to go.

  • As we came in sight of the house, we found it looking very gloomy.

  • I remembered also that when Rachel had gone out of the garden, looking very pale, and holding a lady's arm for support, a little girl had put her tongue out at her.

  • Looking very puzzled, he edged gradually nearer to Mbutu, and, as Tom turned to go down the hill, took the young Muhima by both arms, and gazed searchingly into his face.

  • Tom stood in front of him, looking very warm.

  • Mildred has returned to us, looking very well, and says she has had a very pleasant tour among her friends, and has received a great deal of kindness wherever she has been.

  • Brandon' is looking very beautiful, and it is refreshing to look at the river.

  • Ravensworth is looking very well--I mean the house and grounds, but little of the farm seems to be cultivated, and is growing up with pines.

  • I found her in the shop, looking very ill, and obstinately reserved.

  • I asked her to show him in; and the little fellow entered, looking very shy, and clinging first to the door and then to the wall.

  • She was followed by Fanny, looking very pale, and bringing with her some sewing, by way of "having something in her hands.

  • As George entered the house, old John Sedley was passing out of the banker's parlour, looking very dismal.

  • Mason had departed, looking very disgusted, and his friend, the specialist, very amused, Sir John listened to all the young physician had to say about the case.

  • I didn't know you kept a dog," said Smith, looking very thoughtfully at the disturbed face of his companion.

  • Horace Wilkinson, looking very knowingly at his companion from over his finger-tips.

  • Daisy came near, looking very attentive; if she felt any more she did not shew it in her face.

  • Then I can do something else," said Daisy, looking very fearless of anything disagreeable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking 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:
    effect their safety and; follow thee; given volume; humble opinion; less complete; looking after; looking back; looking craft; looking creature; looking east; looking fellows; looking from; looking gentleman; looking man; looking much; looking north; looking place; looking round; looking south; looking straight; looking very; looking west; looking woman; not seem; plain sewing; she sobbed