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[ UK /stˈe‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈstɛɹ/ ]
VERB
  1. look at with fixed eyes
    The students stared at the teacher with amazement
  2. fixate one's eyes
    The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly
NOUN
  1. a fixed look with eyes open wide

How To Use stare In A Sentence

  • During our exchanges there were plenty of glares and stares, and maybe even a couple of opinions shared.
  • Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • GENERAL LEVALLE, Argentina—Pilots often stare in disbelief when they make their first flight over this hamlet on the verdant pampa. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
  • So I stare down at the pool table and pretend to study my opponent's next move.
  • By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
  • He stared off toward a cluster of people near the fireplace and I followed his gaze.
  • He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won. The Sun
  • That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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