How To Use Look down on In A Sentence
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In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Today, Clark said, New Yorkers could stand on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and look down on a present-day active whale habitat.
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From there they could look down on the city's fine new skyscrapers and modern apartment blocks.
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Glover would crawl out after him on the roof at the top of the house and look down on the lake.
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It was really nice just to follow the cliffs and look down onto a dead calm sea with a setting sun in the west giving the whole scene a nice warm glow.
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No one will look down on you for being honest.
The Sun
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Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
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Worst of all, the neighbours can look down on you from their newer, swankier properties.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill
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Although members of the upper classes are not above profiting from the cocaine trade, they look down on the narcos in the same way that wealthy people the world over disdain the nouveau riche.
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Renovated and restyled a few years ago, The Roman Bath was formerly structured to allow punters to look down on to the 2,000 year old caldarium from which it takes its name.
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Look down on the trees, lakes and mountains far below as you soar through the air ....
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I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
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Most people touring the 302-square-kilometre Lushan National Park will be unruffled when they stand in front of perpendicular cliffs and look down on deep valleys.
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Her paintings are all from an aerial viewpoint - as a viewer you look down on a washed, subtly disconcerting landscape.
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Haiden's smile only brightened wider when the dark elves approached the top of a cliff to look down on a small caravan of dwarves, camped in a ring of trees in the valley below.
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And this goddamned school is antifemale, they look down on women, especially women my age.
The Women’s Room
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Now I find more than a few Brisbane sophisticates similarly look down on culturally deprived bushies such as myself.
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These experts and intellectuals look down on the rest of us as something on the bottom of their green wellies.
The Sun
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So the attack is then set up thus: pick an upper class trait for maximum rhetorical effect and then describe those who would look down on you thusly.
Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
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As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.
Ideonexus.com »2004» Maj
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Firstly are you r-cist YOU state racially foreigners are of lesser value, you dont like the comparison, when you became British did your DNA mutate, when YOU look abroad you look down on foreigners.
Griffin, The 'C' Word and the BNP
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They're hard and lumbering and they look down on the "paleface," the creatures of albumen that once roamed the galaxy.
Scusteister: Stanislaw Lem and the Singularity: Cyberiad
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The teamsters, surly and self-contained, wear slouch hats and great cowhide boots; while the stage-drivers, their faces seamed by the hardship and exposure of their long drives with every kind of team, through every kind of country, and in every kind of weather, proud of their really wonderful skill as reinsmen and conscious of their high standing in any frontier community, look down on and sneer at the "skin hunters" and the plodding drivers of the white-topped prairie schooners.
The Cattle Country of the Far West
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It is framed by gentle hills that look down on oak groves that abound with deer, bobcats and golden eagles.
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The park has a really cool hawk tower where you can look down on the Olive Sparrows and ducks, grebes and herons on the water.
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Most people touring the 302-square-kilometre Lushan National Park will be unruffled when they stand in front of perpendicular cliffs and look down on deep valleys.
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People here don't want others to look down on them, so they'll go anywhere to earn more.
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There are those who look down on Americans who look up to fictitional heros like this, but they’ve been a part of America ever since we’ve been telling stories.
24 And The War On Terror
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It's easy to look down on down-and-outs and forget that they are a community in their own right.
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It's feared a wooden fence separating the two properties was insubstantial, and people standing on the balconies of their new homes would be able to look down on gardens surrounding the Lodge.
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It is framed by gentle hills that look down on oak groves that abound with deer, bobcats and golden eagles.
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Exploring waters redolent of manure and marked by signs warning of mercury contamination, he caught pikeminnow, carp and bass -- species that traditionalists look down on as "coarse" fish.
On Fly Casting's Urban Frontier, the Fish Are Big, the Water's Dirty
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No one will look down on you for being honest.
The Sun
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It is framed by gentle hills that look down on oak groves that abound with deer, bobcats and golden eagles.
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Bear in mind that this rule applies even in the case of extreme digitigrade organisms in which a ‘ventral’ or ‘plantar’ view of the ankle in a natural life position requires one to look down on the tarsals and see the top side of the foot.
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I think we’re underrepresented in cisgender queer theory, cisgender “third gender” anthropology, and armchair feminism, that those fields reify this gender-non-conforming/third-gender/gender-non-binary/whatever deal, and that subversivist communities look down on transsexual women (and sometimes men).
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
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The Brits think they say aitch and tend to look down on the Irish for saying haitch.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court
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I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
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Through the glass, high above his head, and not far from the surface, he saw a huge thornback, bending toward them and seeming to look down on them, as it flew slowly through the water -- the action of the two sides of its body fringed with fins, and its consequent motion, were much more like the act of flying than that of swimming.
Weighed and Wanting
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He can look down on all of us, has side windows through which to view the world, and a skylight to the stars.
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What kind of spiteful little snobs have we become that we look down on anyone who works as a cleaner?
The Sun
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Statues look down on the rebuilt inner city of Dresden from atop Hall.
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We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too.
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I look down onto that finely manicured turf, and I can feel how much this game means to the players.
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The snob uses language to look down on the rest of the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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What I find a bit exasperating is encountering poets (of a certain age) who somehow look down on online publications as beneath a “real” publication (read print).
In Praise of Online Journals : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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In Greenland, I was helicoptered up to the top of a mountain, from where you can look down on these amazing blue structures.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions.
The Wind From The South
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I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
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I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
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In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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IT would be easy to look down on this comedy which is packed with infantile humour.
The Sun
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This enables the complainant to look down on you and not to feel that he or she has been put into the inferior position.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy.
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Her paintings are all from an aerial viewpoint - as a viewer you look down on a washed, subtly disconcerting landscape.
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This enables the complainant to look down on you and not to feel that he or she has been put into the inferior position.
Times, Sunday Times
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People here don't want others to look down on them, so they'll go anywhere to earn more.
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I haven't read those books, and note only that they show the comics world's unabashed happiness with adaptations and spin-offs of other people's work, an enterprise that the world of literary fiction tends to look down on (unless, of course, it's an exercise in postmodernism).
No Escape
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There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock.
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It is not surprising that with this attitude towards dark-skinned people, many North Africans do not consider themselves blacks and look down on habitants of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean.
Stupid
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I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
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Few people any longer look down on activities that test nerve and aim rather than conventional athleticism.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can't look down on a painter — you can't take him seriously enough.
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The point is, there also appear to be Republicans who were enthusiastic about Sarah Palin not for her stands on the issues, or whether she was well-informed about them at all, but from the flip side of the same superficialities that allegedly led others to look down onher.
The Volokh Conspiracy » John Mark Reynolds on Sarah Palin
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When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool.
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She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair.
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Stand aft to look down on the wake frothing up from the propeller wash.
