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Example sentences for "stared down"

  • I stared down at it, recognizing its significance.

  • Kirby rested exactly as he had fallen, and I stared down at the dim outlines of his distended body, unable to comprehend how my swift blow could have wrought such damage.

  • He stared down at the floating bodies, gulped, shuddered slightly, and drew a hand across his goggles, as though that would wipe away the scene below and make everything as it had been before.

  • He stared down at his two hands folded on the edge of the little table, and the expression on his thin face seemed to show a reluctance to answer that question.

  • A wild, fierce joy surged up in Dawson as he stared down at the place, but when he happened to glance at his fuel gauges, a tiny icy shiver went through him, and his joy was tempered by cold, hard reality.

  • He stared down at his ankles, which also were throbbing agonisingly--to learn that they were confined in gyves attached by a short chain to a ring in the floor!

  • He stared down at the pencilled slip which the Assistant Commissioner had handed him, but stared vacantly, and: "Do you mind if I call someone up, sir?

  • I stared down at him in amazement, as was natural, and not a little angrily; for his sudden action had almost pitched me on my head.

  • But sitting thus chin on fist I stared down at Red Andy's stiffening body silent as he, I being too full of fierce anger and bitter scorn of my folly for speech.

  • The Viscount's fists were tight clenched, and he stared down blindly at the floor.

  • He was wringing his hands and moaning in his misery as he stared down at the girl stretched out on my overcoat.

  • I stared down at him as he leaned wearily back in the heavy chair.

  • But--" I stared down at the telltale saliva streaked with blood.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animal and vegetable life; being very; boundary line; bully beef; but having; certain minimum; enable him; given moment; hundred dollars; including the; increased production; moral government; national reputation; political agent; privy councillor; small matters; stared down; trunk service; vegetable life; visiting cards; when going; will obey