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Example sentences for "what looked"

  • At last, what looked like a twinkling star appeared in the distance, and it gradually increased till we emerged in open daylight.

  • They set it down in what looked like a good location, but almost immediately took it up again and shifted it a foot to one side.

  • The place was on the edge of a meadow, at the beginning of what looked like a grain field.

  • The aircraft had come to a stop in the middle of what looked like a cane brake.

  • I saw--it was winter--what looked to me an unsightly tangle of disorder.

  • Well, dear, what looked impossible is evidently coming to pass.

  • The floods were all the while advancing on what looked like a beleaguered city, when we went out on the plain outside, and gazed back at the city wall, with its dark water-line clearly marked all round close to the top.

  • Then strode by what looked like a tall Highlander, with a striped garment of many colours draped round him, boots of soft woollen coming to the knee, and edged with a coarse stuff of brilliant red and yellow.

  • At length their attention was attracted by what looked like a gigantic but listless football scrimmage, some four or five hundred strong, slowly and aimlessly circling about upon a wide grassy space.

  • She had left her opera cloak and evening gown in the cloak-room, and was now attired in what looked like a bathing-suit of tight pink silk.

  • His forehead, however, was disfigured by what looked like a haphazard assortment of eyes, eight in number, of different sizes and shapes.

  • Then he put his hand to his mouth and took from it what looked like a bright-coloured pebble.

  • What looked like a small patch of purple grass, above five feet square, was moving across the sand in their direction.

  • Every here and there the gloom was relieved by what looked like a golden shower of rain, where the sun managed to penetrate; but, as soon as this was passed, the darkness seemed deeper than before.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what looked" 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:
    what amount; what course; what did; what good; what had taken place; what has been called; what have you done; what house; what might have been; what pertains; what principle; what profit; what reason; what respect; what seems; what should; what then; what thing; what time did you; what used; what was taking place; what ways; what woman; what you might call; whatsoever they; will agree