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looking

[ UK /lˈʊkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫʊkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of searching visually
  2. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually
    he went out to have a look
    his camera does his looking for him
    he gave it a good looking at
    his look was fixed on her eyes
ADJECTIVE
  1. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
    taken in by high-sounding talk
    liquid-looking
    severe-looking policemen on noble horses
    left their clothes dirty looking
    fine-sounding phrases
    a most disagreeable looking character
    angry-looking

How To Use looking In A Sentence

  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • As far back as the 1920s, it was an easy getaway for Hollywood types looking for a little privacy; and this golden era lives on at select spots.
  • Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
  • I looking forward to seeing Mark as we've been apart for a few days.
  • Acronyms or abbreviations can confuse a client who is looking for the business in a resource listing.
  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
  • I'm looking forward to the Gehry building, though, even though it's been watered down a bit from its original design.
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