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Example sentences for "she stared"

  • She stared at him as if she thought that he was mad, though doubtless she had heard something of that story, then swept up the steps and sat herself down in the royal chair.

  • She stared at him in amazement, she who never understood Seti and could not dream that he would throw away the greatest throne in all the world to save a subject people, merely because he thought that they should not die.

  • She stared at us affrighted, for who we were she could not see because of the wide hoods of our common cloaks that made us look like midnight thieves, or slave-dealing Bedouin.

  • She stared up at the floor where his mother made her home, and withdrew timorously into the darkness of a doorway when a woman's threatening shadow was cast on the drawn curtains.

  • As she stared up at his window, she saw the shadow of his tall figure on the blind glide up and down, from one end of the room to the other--up and down, up and down.

  • And, sitting down on a log, her hands pressed to her cheeks and her elbows to her breast, she stared at the sunlit bracken and the flies chasing each other over it.

  • She stared again at the toe-cap of his boot.

  • Thus, still plucking at the green brocade, she stared at Soames.

  • And as she stared at herself, she marvelled.

  • She stared at the water, and repeated her exclamation.

  • She stared in stupor and threw both hands above her streaming gray hair.

  • She stared at him in tense silence, trying to gather her wits before she answered.

  • Uttering a low cry which was almost a scream, she stared at an object lying on the step in front of her.

  • She stared at it a moment, then let it fall against the brass plate.

  • She stared at it a moment, shuddered, and then with a gesture of abhorrence, hurled it into the crackling flames.

  • She stared fixedly at the object on the floor.

  • With fascinated gaze, she stared at the flickering oil light.

  • Miss Lynn's cheeks had lost the power of changing color, but her eyes were as expressive as ever, and now as she stared at her victim they showed a certain inflexibility of purpose.

  • As she stared out at the night shapes capering past she felt acute personal shame that she had been tricked into even a brief association with so vile a crew.

  • The shock of this callous assertion seemed to rob Mrs. Knight of speech; she stared at her daughter in grief and amazement.

  • Glancing up from her work, she stared at them, and then deliberately looked away.

  • Turning her head, she stared at the girl's bedraggled hair and wet clothing.

  • Bewildered, she stared at the doorway where the painted parrot sign had swung.

  • She stared up at the tasseled baldachin with its furled draperies, and fingered the lace covering and the silken comforter.

  • She stared in dismay at the charred first banquet and then marched her weary feet down the stairs again and up the hill again to a delicatessen shop.

  • She stared at the dark buildings of various heights before her.

  • She stared at his red impassive face, and her fingers had the undignified desire to slap him, but her reason agreed with him.

  • She was curiously exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands.

  • She stared at the mud-browned chilly water, the floating gray reeds.

  • She stared at the passing motor, at Kennicott and the girl beside him.

  • She stared at the moccasin in bewilderment, but what with the newness of her experience and the voluble praise of the women and the open-eyed admiration of the men, she was finely excited.

  • She shivered and her eyes dilated as she stared at me and she muttered: "I dread the woods, the silence, the darkness.

  • Patricia glanced in our direction, and I saw her hand fly to her heart as she stared at me with lips parted.

  • She was a thin, frail-appearing little woman with prominent blue eyes, and her gaze was glassy as she stared at the woods, and her lips were drawn back in a snarl.

  • She stared at him, and there was still a little uneasiness in her eyes: she understood, and followed him.

  • She stared at the lighted candles, and mechanically scratched away the wax that had trickled down the side of the candlestick.

  • She stared blankly at the seat in front of her, she was pale: she was eating her heart out.

  • She stepped quickly around it--and stopped-and a low cry of dismay came from her as she stared at the floor.

  • She stared at him in genuine perplexity and amazement.

  • She stared at him in the faint light without a word.

  • She stared curiously as the man unlocked the door.

  • Her brows knitted into furrows, as she stared at Danglar.

  • She rubbed her eyes childishly with her knuckles; she stared at him for a moment unrecognisingly, then, as memory returned, she shrank back into her corner.

  • She stared at him for a moment, then she laughed incredulously.

  • June pushed back her chair; her brain was in a whirl; she stared at Rochester with dazed eyes.

  • She stared for an instant, totally at a loss for the meaning--the mere direction of what he was trying to say.

  • She stared at the man who uttered it as if he were--what he had for the moment become--a stranger.

  • She stared for a moment, breathless, paled a little and locked her teeth so that they shouldn't chatter; then, a wave of bright anger relaxed her stiffened muscles.

  • She stared at him for a moment and then perceiving, or thinking she perceived, something allegorical about the suggestion, she gave a laugh, swooped down and kissed him and went.

  • She stared at him in simple blank incredulity.

  • She stared at him, then started searching intensively through her memories of the last few minutes.

  • She stared down at the table for what seemed like eons before she was able to answer.

  • She stared hard at it for perhaps five seconds, concentrating, then the pad rose from the table.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she stared" 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:
    rigged ship; saying thus; she became; she can; she cried; she died; she had never seen; she looked about her; she made; she passed; she read; she resolved; she rose from her; she sat; she seems; she took; she were; she wouldn; she wrote; shed tears; sheer force; sheet iron; shell beads; shell hole; shell thin; still remained