How To Use Look around In A Sentence

  • I look around, and the bleak landscape leads me to wonder what use a place like this would have for China, a country already vast in size, population and economy.
  • Luck takes you to look around an unusual house. The Sun
  • She opened her eyes to look around the room she was in, but could only see dim shapes in the ghostly moonlight.
  • Polmayne was a stopgap, a stepping stone, a place in which to sit back and look around before starting afresh. THE MAIN CAGES
  • We move on foot to some higher ground and look around. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Feel free to look around the whole site, not just this blog, although most of it is still under construction.
  • ‘There were all the signs of it being a spectacular autumn but if you look around the arboretum a lot of trees are still green,’ he said.
  • Look around and ahead of and behind you when next you are caught in a traffic bottleneck on an expressway and try to account for the snarl rationally.
  • Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
  • I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers!
  • Then her eyes opened slowly and she tried to lift her head and look around.
  • Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
  • -- Means there are some geat deer if you just look around. Field & Stream
  • I look around at the other mid-level managers and top editors in my newsroom and other newsrooms.
  • Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
  • But the creatures did not sit to look around in wonder as Rabbit had.
  • Please take a look around and expand your botanical knowledge.
  • Look around you - this is so wild! ‘she says, leading me into a sylvan clearing under a cedar tree.
  • The saunterer came further inside, took a good look around and then marched off to the left. Archive 2006-03-01
  • We kept to little-used footpaths and half-deserted streets, always stopping to look around corners before venturing forward. The Book of Unholy Mischief
  • After a while, when she'd regathered her wits, and caught her breath, she raised her head to look around.
  • There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together.
  • So we must look around for phenomena that occur every 150 million years or so.
  • And in the center is an outdoor café bustling with twentysomethings so picture-perfect I look around to see if a film crew is shooting a commercial.
  • If you are reading this during your morning commute, look around the carriage. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's an interesting place. Do you want to take a look around?
  • We'd like you to look around and tell us if anything is missing.
  • To Monster: I don't know what organization you are referring to but I happen to be an employee at an SPCA here in Midland and at any given time you can come in and have a look around, you won't find alot of cute little "adoptable" dogs, you will find alot of medium to large size black dogs and yes I believe they are adoptable for someone. Undefined
  • A UPS was an unsanctioned prescreen, meaning the two Op-Center agents had a look around without the benefit of a search warrant. Call to Treason
  • After Santa, we had a look around the craft fair, which wasn't all that good so thankfully my wallet stayed put in my pocket.
  • When we backcheck, it's not just to look around, either. ... USATODAY.com
  • I took a bit more time to fool around flying the chute, doing turns and spins, and also having a better look around.
  • It is a good month to look around gardens, because June is a time of abundance.
  • Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
  • Look around and find a place to go chat with some other intrepid young adventurers.
  • I look around me and see a very nice planet that is still well within any salvageability margins. Time to go Mike - NASA Watch
  • I see a job change in seven months, providing you look around to find the right one.
  • The Dutch pilot decided to stay with the other aviators, and they began to look around the field.
  • So we had another cursory look around for about five minutes, found nobody. The Sun
  • I look around and I see a lot of pretty good defensive players.
  • They are having a night away in a hotel and, hopefully, taking the opportunity to have a look around.
  • They had a look around at the familiar surroundings and then they absolutely demolished a disappointing home team.
  • Its style stretched the skin across her face, eliminating the crepy look around her eyes and the lines of strain recently etched near her mouth as well as smoothing her brow and tautening a sagging chin. The Glory Game
  • We look around and smell the aromas, growing ever more curious about the whirl of activity surrounding us.
  • He had a very strong look around him, a look that inspirited people in his presence.
  • You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
  • As she fingered through them, searching for the one that would unlock the main door, the keys jangled, causing Rena to surreptitiously look around.
  • The ogres, unable to see her, began to look around, still roaring and shouting in their coarse speech.
  • ‘I think children and parents are going to be gobsmacked when they look around,’ he said, speaking ahead of yesterday's open day.
  • I look around at the paper walls and feel frustration welling up inside me - I want to cry, but nothing comes, I'm numb to it all.
  • Take a look around your stretch of coastline, you could get some very pleasant surprises.
  • The Buck will look around and go back to feeding and its tail will remain motionless until it starts to look up again. The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home
  • I would get this really happy feeling when I was putting on my coat if I could look around and everything was nice: the glasses turned upside down and shining, the carpet speckless and smooth like a mowed lawn, the pillows on the bed fat and indented. We
  • Well, this year I was proud to look around the old airfield and think it was our home race. The Sun
  • Look around the sink, slow draining pipes indicate a blocked drain.
  • Naoise let it fly over his head, contenting himself to look around.
  • I'd be on the set and I'd look around, and I would be back in 1976, a freshman in high school again.
  • He fought hard the urge to look around at all the people, the shouting, the screaming.
  • Now, look around you at the steaming piles of baby clothes, towelling nappies and suchlike on every desk, cupboard, radiator, hat stand, wall planner and trouser press.
  • Moran made no gesture, did not even look around him.
  • The workers are strictly prohibited from raising their heads to look around. The Sun
  • Look around and you can see other planets and stars in the galaxy. The Sun
  • The workers are strictly prohibited from raising their heads to look around. The Sun
  • There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’.
  • But a quick look around him would have soon dispelled such notions. Times, Sunday Times
  • They started their look around from the pub on the edge of the city centre heading outwards into the suburbs.
  • We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Come With Me My Love To the Sea, the Sea of Love… « So Many Books
  • Anyone who thinks this "omission" is acceptable needs to remove the sheet and pointy hat and look around this fine country. Obama: Virginia governor's slavery omission 'unacceptable'
  • I only have to look around at the hive of inactivity that is my pad, to see that I am not worthy of a feature in Homes & Interiors.
  • I get upset when I look around at egalitarian minyanim full of liberal Jews davening mostly from ArtScroll siddurim. Warning: Artscroll Women’s Siddur | Jewschool
  • This week I would ask readers to take a look around Kilmead and maybe have a wander up around the Moat of Ardscull.
  • You only had to look around the ward to see the brutality of war. Times, Sunday Times
  • Look around, and you'll see tons of fresh, never-seen-him-before cuties doing their thing at the pool, the park, the mall - just about anywhere!
  • The workers are strictly prohibited from raising their heads to look around. The Sun
  • But, look around and you will see a few hats, caps and berets going around town.
  • You only have to look around to understand that in his hands, and the hands of the image-makers who have made his face one of the most famous on the planet, golf is in danger of becoming as mainstream as football.
  • I mean, you look around you see freestanding short-stay surgery centers, short-stay labor rooms, you know, cancer centers. One Doctor's Mission To Revive The Humble Physical
  • As you drive, you look around you at all the signs of degeneration; you hear distant explosions, perhaps catch the foxfire glow of a nearby inferno. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk. Don't worry. You just walk - just fly! RVM 
  • I poked my head up and began to look around, shining the light across the attic floor and into all the nooks and crannies.
  • Finance directors will be reluctant to take a big hit on their profits, so where possible will look around for other cost savings.
  • Suppose that after the first move has been played, we look around the board and determine apropos of each Power whether its first set of moves has been as expected, better than expected or worse than expected.
  • But a quick look around the neighbouring tables convinced me that next time I visit I will leave space for afters.
  • You should look around for a chic jacket to have to hand in case the day turns chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • She gathered herself up and took a good look around.
  • Look around the sink, slow draining pipes indicate a blocked drain.
  • When I was sufficiently unbundled to have a look around, though, I was instantly dismayed.
  • And then, once the theoretical package is in place, you have to look around and see if it is being applied properly, or whether the tradition is neglecting someone or something.
  • I have a special interest in old houses. Do you mind if I take a look around?
  • She walked in the store - the door was wedged open - and proceeded to look around.
  • If you look around we have got some very attacking players. Times, Sunday Times
  • The full majesty of the vehicle can best be viewed from elsewhere - take advantage of this when you get off at any of the stops and look around for the trains steaming through the countryside.
  • You look around here and most of the people have got a smile on their faces now. Times, Sunday Times
  • When you return to the street, you'll look around and feel a twinge of homesickness.
  • Walking into Galiena's room, I took a quick look around than heard another small giggle, coming from under the bed, which was followed by a series of shh's.
  • She is your eyes as you operate the game's ‘look around’ function to orient yourself in a landscape or position yourself to jump off a cliff.
  • Visual studies has to think through the ways of thinking about what visuality is - not just to look around at the endless proliferation of images and artifacts.
  • I look around to see Seven of Nine getting the Borg Queen another Klingon bloodwine. Archive 2009-12-01
  • She slung her bag cumbersomely about her neck and tucked it under one arm then slid off of her bed and took quite a few seconds to look around the room, apparently absorbing everything.
  • He can't help but look around, distracted by the vendors selling cooking oil and the mashed vegetable stew called "legume," the rum stands and the ubiquitous lottery shops where impoverished Haitians place tiny quixotic bets. In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
  • There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together.
  • Seeing no one save a small tabby kitten lying curled upon a red plush sofa, I took the chance to look around.
  • You only had to look around the ward to see the brutality of war. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her violet eyes cast a look around, her radiance seeming to brighten the gloom around her…
  • No doubt the right way to proceed is to think of circumstances in which the two models give widely different predictions and to look around for real-life situations that offer the opportunity to discriminate between them. Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
  • Hopping out of the car she took a long look around and her smile broadened.
  • As I look around me I see the strongest feature in the decorations is our beloved Union jack (Applause) 1 feel almost at home. The True India
  • It's easy to be depressed when you look around and see the state of monetary affairs.
  • You look around here and you can't help but realize the magnificent splendour of nature.
  • Okay then, says, taking a look around him.
  • I nod and look around to see broken glass covering the entire room.
  • I got up, and holding tightly to the purlin — for the waves made the masts tremble with their violence — I tried to look around and below me. The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • A lot of the familiar faces have disappeared, but I can still picture them when I look around the room.
  • When he did not look around, she said, "Are you too busy to even _look_ at me? The Eyes of the World
  • Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk. Don't worry. You just walk - just fly! RVM 
  • You take a look around the pool and are surprised to see that a number of swimmers are using fins, especially on kick sets.
  • To find publishers who sell high-end or low-end games, go to a software store and look around.
  • A founding editor who doesn't look around for good ideas to pinch is a chump, and there are familiar elements in both mags.
  • But before you attach the label enclave of the rich and famous, longtime summer resident and Harvard professor Charles Ogletree says take a look around. CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009
  • He said: 'I had a cursory look around and there were two rucksacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Concentrate your mind on study.Don't look around.
  • When there was no response he pushed it ajar and stuck his head in to look around.
  • It has a rough, gnarly look around the edges, the native fescue changing color with the seasons.
  • With a quick look around, eyes sparkling, she took off at a run towards the end of the cliff.
  • If you are a beneficiary of "free" healthcare, take a look around at your neighbors, odds are that your upkeep is being paid for by one or more of them. Ted Kennedy stars in new Dodd TV ad
  • Her assistant was at lunch so she came out herself, relaxing with arms akimbo while the prospective customer had a chance to look around. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • They never said anything about alice brfor she was a vampire or the phone call befor anything you just didnt do it right i loved the movie but that was as well because i loved the book. you have to put very important things in there. it well be hared for the werewolf crew but you just have to go to different states look around and see what wroks out. Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • I took a look around at the poets, the grand scrufflarians I have taken such a liking to, and pondered the haphazardness of them all, the delightful observations I have absorbed by watching them.
  • We took the train to New Romney and had a look around the museum there before taking the train back. Tequilamonky Diary Entry
  • … And are we not returning to precisely the same thing, we dare-devils of intellect who have scaled the highest and most dangerous pinnacles of present thought, in order to look around us from that height, in order to _look down_ from that height? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
  • Yeah, just look around you, 99 percent of the people here are total hipsters!
  • Concentrate your mind on study.Don't look around.
  • Stepping inside, Allie paused to look around at the cottage's simple elegance.
  • Do you think I could look around the dig for a while?
  • The taxi driver took a look around, tried vainly to make peace, did not like what he was seeing, leapt back in his taxi, and skedaddled.
  • At the top of the cliff we paused to catch our breath and look around.
  • But a quick look around him would have soon dispelled such notions. Times, Sunday Times
  • We move on foot to some higher ground and look around. Times, Sunday Times
  • The programme for the day is: The newly furbished school will be open from 4pm on Sunday for those wishing to have a look around.
  • Yesterday, I saw an item on CNN Headline News that made me look around the net for some details.
  • Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a smile and see them light up. RVM 
  • I took a furtive look around, digested the unfamiliar surroundings, and backtracked.
  • Look around you, these people kwhitegocubs 4 minutes ago 10:34 PM Somebody decided to comment without reading the commentary ­, looking at statistics­, evaluating our real-world income and wealth inequality ­, and having any idea what the word "elite" means. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • There is plenty of time to look around Stratford-upon-Avon or leave the train at Warwick to visit the historic castle.
  • To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.
  • I took a look around the drab training centre.
  • The hungry wolf pointed out how beautiful the forest was and suggested she slow down and look around.
  • I think the scary thing about this team is that you look around and everyone seems to be brain swirly," he said. NFL - National Football League - Washington vs. Philadelphia
  • When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time.
  • So we had another cursory look around for about five minutes, found nobody. The Sun
  • Darcy was still immobile, continuing to look around vaguely.
  • Look around the places where you know animals live such as badger setts, foxholes, and rabbit burrows: around these place you may find tracks and droppings.
  • So we had another cursory look around for about five minutes, found nobody. The Sun
  • My attitudes have ripened over the decades and I've put away the bell-bottom pants, but I recently decided to take a fresh look around this town where parking tickets can cost a week's salary and vehicles haphazardly compete with pedestrians in weaving competitions similar to the blind road races once held through the streets of Calcutta. Red Room: Pam Tent: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat: Why San Francisco Is It for Me
  • look around to see whether you can find the missing document
  • Just out of his body cast and into a metal brace, Patchen still lacked mobility and so began to look around for a house nearby.
  • I look around me at work and I see where my colleagues go: the coffee room, the vending machine, the works canteen.
  • You look around here and you can't help but realize the magnificent splendour of nature.
  • But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
  • We can all look around and find situations that fuel a certain feeling in our lives.
  • When you step into a room such as this, and you smell mold, mildew, a funky kind of moisture, a heavy smell, you should look around.
  • I take a look around the classroom and notice I stand out like the one-legged man in a kicking contest.
  • I look around the crowd during Forever Lost - almost everyone is singing their heart out, and those who aren't are cuddling the person next to them and beaming like moony Cheshire cats.
  • Total recall is pretty tough when you're out there pinning it and not taking much time to look around, but I will say that the singletrack was a ton of fun - and very challenging at times. This Just In
  • When someone leaves, the apartment goes market. if you think that anything is done in NJ, especially hudson county, that does NOT involve keeping the welfare machine firmly controlled by the party currently in charge does the term gerrymander mean anything to you? if you think that anything is done in NJ, especially hudson county, that does NOT involve keeping the welfare machine firmly controlled by the party currently in charge, then you are much more stupid than i give you credit. seriously, how f'n stupid are you? how long have you been living in NJ? do you not look around and watch how the taxes are distributed in this state? hoboken is a tiny version of this entire state. you are one big f'n idiot. and you can look up "gerrymander" on google you twit. Hoboken 411
  • If you prefer a bit of outdoor eating, look around for ‘chaat walas’ with their pushcarts.
  • Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
  • Not especially in a mood to linger and look around I made a mental note to return in a better frame of mind.
  • As one approaches the copse of trees at the entrance to Tobernalt, one usually stands still by a large rock to look around in the shady dim light.
  • He stood up straight, look around the room, and spoke slowly, in a loud booming voice as if he were a teacher trying to overrule a class of noisy students.
  • When little Nell enters the labourer's hut, we supposedly look around it with the eyes of the child.
  • There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’.
  • Before he left he cast a look around his immaculate house, his sharp eyes scanning every corner.
  • If you doubt it, take a look around your house, in particular the corners where useless objects lie dormant. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you doubt it, take a look around your house, in particular the corners where useless objects lie dormant. Times, Sunday Times
  • They turned their heads to look around and when they had turned their heads back to the entranceway they had entered from they saw the man standing there with three boxes under his arms.
  • Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
  • Look around a synagogue when a cantor offers a new tune for prayer, and both sides of the debate will become apparent.
  • For those who still aren't convinced, stop for a minute, look around and take the time to absorb all that this great campus has to offer.
  • We move on foot to some higher ground and look around. Times, Sunday Times
  • Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk. Don't worry. You just walk - just fly! RVM 
  • To look around and get out of your freaking country and on to Pointe Noire in Congo, quoth I. Mike Arkus: Recent African Airport Experiences: From Presidential Shutdown to an 'Are-They-Out-to-Get-Me' Moment
  • You should look around for a chic jacket to have to hand in case the day turns chilly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can you not look around you at all you have and, from such a position of success, take pity on those of us forced to battle each day for whatever crumb of self-respect we can muster?
  • The kitchen is a mess and I walked in, took one look around and walked out.
  • ‘I am probably more strict than my parents were with me, but you look around you and you see children running amok,’ he said.
  • If you look around we have got some very attacking players. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor lowered his weapon as his eyes cast a cold look around the camp.
  • I had now gained sufficient confidence to look around.
  • Unlike some other notabilities, he did not immediately unbonnet himself to display his capacious forehead, nor did he pause and look around to attract and gratify his admirers.
  • It was Ursula down in reception, ready for our joint leaving do, so I necked the drink and carted off my stuff, taking a last look around the office that has been a second home for the last six years.
  • If you look around we have got some very attacking players. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take a look around,’ he said with a gesture indicating the enclosed room, ‘No one else.’
  • And if you think Southern racism has been flushed from the Democratic Party, I suggest you look around a little. Matthew Yglesias » Civil Rights, Polarization, and Gridlock
  • The group went to the end of the lake, where the hotelkeeper has a house and farm and allows people to look around if they give a donation.
  • You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
  • Look around and you'll find general-purpose buckets as well as buckets made specifically for digging dirt or sand or rock, cleaning ditches, or grading slopes.
  • I had a look around on the internet this evening for some muscle diagrams and it seems I have a painful abductors pollicis longus.
  • When they were finished, Wyatt took one last look around before getting back into the cab.

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