This old lady was actually making a move as I entered the room, for as she turned and stared at me she was holding a chessman in her hand.
A face stared boldly out at him, the face of a girl, pretty and quite vulgar, and quite strange to him.
I had come at last across the perfect house, and I sat in the car and stared and stared at it, not at first with any conscious desire to possess it, but simply taken by the sheer beauty of the thing, just as one may gaze at a jewel.
His eyes stared at them, his mouth hung open, and when any stray gust of wind struck the ridge, he nodded at them with a dreadful pleasantry.
He handed it to Hanaud, whostared at it doubtfully, folded as it was.
So she stood and swung the lantern slowly from side to side as she stared into the darkness, while the lights and shadows chased each other swiftly across her white frock, her anxious face, and the waves of her fair hair.
Mademoiselle Sophie stared as if she were not sure whether I was mad or drunk, but was very sure I was one or the other.
The two people stared at one another across the room in a dreadful silence; and it seemed as if, having once spoken, Ina was forced by some terrible burden of anguish to speak yet more.
I had not been able to distinguish truth when it stared me in the face, or to recognise honesty when it looked out from a young girl's dark eyes.
I whipped my own watch out of my pocket and staredat it.
She would not believe--no, not even with Ranks's letter in her hand, at which she stared and stared as though it needed decoding.
We stared at one another blankly, and then at the landlord, and then at Mr. Jeremy.
Mopping her tears, she crumpled the sopping handkerchief in her little fist, sat perfectly upright in her seat, and stared so straight at me that I felt the blood hum in my ears.
They stared on the next occasion of meeting, when Bloundell spoke in contemptuous terms of old Pen, said every body knew old Pen, regular old trencherman at Gaunt House, notorious old bore, regular old fogy.
Thus she stood for a minute--complete and beautiful--as Pen stared at her.
This gravity and decorum routed and surprised the colonel more than any other kind of behavior probably would: hestared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.
The other raised his head and stared with surprise at Florent's tall black figure, which he did not at first recognise.
She stared at the curtains; based an entire drama on the appearance of a head between two shutters; and, by simply gazing at the facades, ended by knowing the history of all the dwellers in these houses.
They stared him out of countenance with their red faces; and in the coarse tones of their voices and the impudent gesture of their hands he could read volumes of filthy abuse levelled at himself.
Seven--eight--" Tom struggled up to a sitting position and stared angrily at his opponent in the far corner.
Through the window, he stared down moodily toward the grassy quadrangle, where at the moment several hundred cadets were marching in formation under a hot sun.
Roger stared up into the stands and searched vainly for some indication of the person who might have sent him the note.
He recognized it immediately from the hundreds of books he had read about the Academy and stared wordlessly.
He stared straight at the wall in front of him, hardly daring to breathe.
He balled his huge hands into tight knots and staredat the floor.
Outside, Steve Strong leaned against the wall and stared through the crystal shell of the atmosphere station into the endless desert.
Strong's face gradually focused on the teleceiver screen and he stared at Tom coldly.
They stared at each other in mutual amazement at the conception of a whole jumpless school.
McAllister marched over to her, his arm raised threateningly; the girl sat and stared coolly back.
Big Scalper turned his back with strange suddenness and stared fixedly out upon the hot, grey glint of the river.
She stared a moment, then laughed aloud, a clear little bubbling irresistible laugh, and this time Scotty laughed with her.
Scotty, whose sturdy little brown feet were shod with leather of their own making, stared contemptuously; she must certainly be a baby to be hurt so easily.
I stared and stared at her lips and then peeped through the trees; and once or twice it appeared to me as though I had seen the grand horseman riding through the wood.
And Jakoberle stared at the ground and muttered, "There must be a hole in my pocket!
Kickel went into the parlour and stared out of the window.
That one glance carried him beyond the gate, but he suddenly spun round on his heel, collided with an indignant lady laden with parcels, and stared hard at Christopher.
He wheeled round, stared hard, and a broad smile of recognition spread over his face.
Children, for the most part sturdy-limbed and well-developed, swarmed in the road, women in a more or less dishevelled condition staredout of open doors at them as they passed.
The woman stared a little at the oddly assorted couple, but the money rang true and the order was booked.
Christopher stared out of the window for so long that the head clerk thought he had forgotten the matter and was disagreeably surprised when he spoke again.
He had recognised it at once and he stared at it as it lay in his hand, trying to comprehend what its presence there might mean.
So while they stared at the second hands of their watches the minutes crept away--Pete wound his watch up tight in the vain hope of making it go a little faster--and at last Bannon turned with a nod to the superintendent.
Sloan stared at him for a moment in unfeigned amazement.
Lucie recoiled; incapable of uttering a word, she stared at her husband.
He dismounted with a timid, deliberate step, stared in dim bewilderment at the long rows of palatial residences, and a chill sense of loneliness crept over him.
There he sat one evening (it was the third day after the examination), andstared out upon the gray stone walls which on all sides enclosed the narrow court-yard.
He did not know how long he had been sitting there, when a little bright-eyed girl with light kid gloves, a small blue parasol and a blue polonaise, quite a lady of fashion en miniature, stopped in front of him and stared at him in shy wonder.
He stared intently upon the weeping Borghild then turned his gaze to the fiddler, who, still regarding her, stood playing, with a half-frenzied look and motion.
He stretched his arm with the blazing torch closer to the young man's face, stared at him with large eyes, and his lip quivered; but he could not utter a word.
In spite of all, and of the dislike she vaunted to herself, the truth stared at her--she was not tired.
All these strange individuals staredapathetically as the train slowly passed.
He staredin well-bred surprise, and presently talked of a new dance which had lately come into vogue.
The door was almost immediately thrown open by a stalwart, ruddy-faced man of sixty, who carried a candle and stared in open-mouthed wonder at a well-dressed visitor at such an hour and place.
The Duke stared at his visitor with something like horrified amazement.
Sybil Hanbury stared hard at the cousin whose stately town house she was occupying, and who had waved a magic wand over her lover's prospects.
He stared out into the gloom of night, wondering what was to come next.
A little lower down he stopped and stared at a huge canvas of the third Duke, but without heeding the bewigged and lace-ruffled counterfeit of the Georgian courtier.
Indeed, Mrs. Talmage Eglinton stared so markedly both at Leonie and her mother that Mrs. Sadgrove thought they must have met, and promptly introduced them as American friends staying in the house.
For some seconds westared at each other in blank amazement.
The caciques and braves who were present stared at each other in consternation.
The traveller stared first at the shelf, then at his host, and turned pale.
Oh dear," answered the fox, "a grisly beast is sitting in my hole, and he stared at me with fiery eyes!
But of a sudden he let fall the rock, crossed his arms over his breast, and stared down upon the garden of earth, like one in a dream.
Her eyes staredinto space as though she would search the depths, and yet they had fain be cast down, for the gorge narrowed and the last trace of a path was inundated by the water.
The transparent rocks stared up to the heavens like frozen joy.
Was it the reflection of that terrible face that had stared at her on the bridge, or of the thoughts with which she had wrestled in prison?
That woke the two children, who stared aghast at the little corpse.
I must have stopped and stared for several seconds, for, in addition to her beauty, I thought I saw a great dread written in the girl's face.
All three of them--even the self-conscious Taplin--stared at Donner.
We all stared at him, for Hays wasn't to have stayed up over an hour.
Your mother never--never--" Colonel Hugonin paused and staredat the open window for a little.
Kathleen stared after him and gave a hard, wringing motion of her hands.
Poor Billy stared at her; and his heart gave a great bound and then appeared to stop for an indefinite time.
Billy came presently to the opening in the hedge and stared at the deserted bench.
For a while Mr. Woods stared after the tired little figure that trudged straight onward in the sunlight, stumbling as she went.
He drew back and stared stupidly at that sprawling flesh which just now had been a man, and was seized with uncontrollable shuddering.
He stared hungrily at the pink, startled face that lifted toward his.
He stood on the threshold, blinking his eyelids, stared at M.
Sylvia stared in front of her, and Michael waited anxiously for the reply.
He stared at the picture of St. Ursula on the white wall, and suddenly in a fit of rage he plucked it from the hook and ground it face downward upon his writing-table.
The unspoken thought that went sailing off upon the painted board was only expressed by the eagerness with which they stared at the proffered house.
In the background from the shadows at either end of the room the sage-green walls materialized in the lamplight: the three dead Wardens stared down at the table: and every fifteen minutes bells chimed in St. Mary's tower.
Was that the thief's and liar's film glazing her eyes as they stared straight into his own?
Michael would have liked to sit at the window and talk of Lily, while he stared out over the sea of roofs under one of which at this very moment herself might be looking in his direction.
Not a breath of air twitched the torn paper-bag on the doorstep of Number One; and the five tall houses with their fifty windows stared at the blank wall opposite.
All the diners under the influence of this assurance stared at one another like conspirators.
The freshmen stared with awe at Marjoribanks, the President of the J.
You aren't elected, but somehow you know just when you can go in without being stared at.
Michael stared at Drake, scarcely realizing the full implication of what he just announced.
Michael was conscious of the garden rimmed with hoar-frost stretching behind her in a vista; and as he stared at this silver sparkling desert he realized that Sylvia had inflicted upon him a crushing humiliation.
Perhaps she noticed him jump, for she stopped at once and stared at him owlishly.
Then he went on to give instructions about chapels and roll-calls and dining in hall and the various regulations of the college, while the Swiss mountains stared bleakly down at the chilly interview.
The other places were filled by impersonal women who sipped from their glasses without relish and stared disdainfully at each other down their powdered noses.
The literature of your realm is reduced to a card, to be pricked by the pin of a gamester; and men have no heads for the pleasures of reading, when stared in the face by ruin.
He stared hard at them as though he could not just believe his senses.
Step Hen happened to have his eyes in the right quarter when suddenly a fine big buck sprang to its feet, and stared at them a second or two, before starting to spring away.
The blue sky above was its roof, and the solemn saints stared down from the walls as if demanding why no kindly hand was raised to protect their fragile beauty from storm and rain.
There was a figure of the Holy Virgin that especially attracted my attention; she stared at me from her golden background with large, pathetic eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
