How To Use Stare In A Sentence
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During our exchanges there were plenty of glares and stares, and maybe even a couple of opinions shared.
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Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
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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
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So I stare down at the pool table and pretend to study my opponent's next move.
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By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He stared off toward a cluster of people near the fireplace and I followed his gaze.
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He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won.
The Sun
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That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
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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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His dark eyes stared back, full of rawness, honesty and uncompromising sincerity.
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He stared at her, his grey eyes lingering on her lips.
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He noticed the curious stares of the regular patrons of the inn.
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With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.
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She stared at her own bloodied hands, unable to think or move.
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I moved back to the window and stared again at the muddled urban view where the new intermingled with the old.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
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He stared at the object of discourse , as one might do at a strange repulsive animal.
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Everyone stared at her as the young woman strutted into the room, fingering a spaghetti strap of her red minidress with plunging neckline.
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His round face perspired freely, his chin to his chest as he stared at his feet.
Much Ado About Marriage
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It was laying on its front and looked as if its head had been resting in its folded arms before rising up enough to let one of its unblinking eyes stare at Kyri through strands of long red hair.
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
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I think it might be one of those weekends where I keep myself to myself, inhale deeply and exhale loudly, and stare at the ceiling.
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He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine.
Southern Cross
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Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
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Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
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Because then that bald spokesguy with the BIG VOICE!! and unblinking stare is on my TV every bloody commercial break.
I hate it when The Brick has a sale
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He continued to stare at M. Riviere perplexedly, wondering how to tell him that his very superiorities and advantages would be the surest hindrance to success.
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He stared at the strange apparition before him.
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You shut your biology book with a thud, and stared at him from across the table.
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The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle.
The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
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Giant eyes stare from the roofs of tin shanties in Brazil.
TED 2011 winner: JR is a street artist papering the world with his photographs
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Cate stared silently ahead, peering into the grove of trees.
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Quite often when I'm driving somewhere on my own, my cell phone will start vibrating with repeated texts coming in and when I finally get home (we rent a condo together) she will petulantly ask me why I did not respond to her texts and I'll simply reply with "… because I was * driving*??" and stare at her like she's on drugs.
Rachel Lucas
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He had seen that stare directed at errant Constables and felt a stir of pity for her.
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I stared down at the rippling black water beneath which lay the mascon.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
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Despite his considerable experiences of tight places Déprez’s heart was pounding, but when he stared across the table, her expression reassured him.
The Blackstone Key
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Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two.
Gravity's Rainbow
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And as he continued to stare at her hat and think, the hurt he had received passed away, and he found himself cudgelling his brains for some way out of the muddle -- for some method by which she could remain on Berande.
Chapter 13
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Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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The carriage teetered precariously as he moved to take a seat opposite her and they stared at each other in a calming silence as she drank, but once she finished, the cup fell from her loose fingers and clattered loudly on the floor.
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The little boy stared at the pregnant woman's rounded belly.
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Finnegan howled and spluttered in inebriate rage, then sank back in his seat and stared up at Arabella with a kind of awestruck respect.
Salvage for the Saint
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But when my poor mother heard that I was committed, by word of honour, to a wild-goose chase, among the rebels, after that runagate Tom Faggus, she simply stared, and would not believe it.
Lorna Doone
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As a wheelchair user, in some places you just get stared at.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jacob stared, cross-eyed, at the end of his nose.
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She gave him a blank stare.
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I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him.
The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
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She stared hard at the blonde, and fumbled for words, but was speechless.
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Even three years ago a stabbing was serious but now you could get shanked for dissing someone's trainers or holding a stare a second too long.
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They all stared at her with glares on their faces.
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YGBSM said ... an absolute favorite breakfast taco of mine, that gets stares from every taqueria counter girl i've ever ordered it from is: chorizo con huevos, with a veneer of frijoles refritos, shredded cheese and a slice of bacon. my friends refer to it as the hand-held heart attack. gotta love living in sa, where there's no shortage of great breakfast taco places.
Breaking the fast with tacos | Homesick Texan
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Ignoring the gun, Karlov turned round and stared straight at the Englishman.
COVER STORY
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He stood and stared at Jett for what seemed like an eternity.
DEAD BEAT
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I stare at the snow drifting outside my window, at the nearly deserted street below, trying not to think about anything.
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He stared at me with his small, observant eyes and it seemed to me as if he was reliving some experience of his with his mother.
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I sot up till the clock was gone twelve last night, a-lookin at em, I did, till they stared at me out o the picturs as if theyd know when I spoke to em.
III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
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Both ignored the curious stares thrown their way as they rushed towards their science class.
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These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys.
The Egoist
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The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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He stared at me with blue, slightly protuberant eyes.
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And then something happens and you stop and look, the look becomes a gaze, the gaze a stare.
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She stares challengingly into the camera lens.
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The crowd gave the serial killer blank stares as he was escorted from the courtroom.
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Carl stared in disbelief at the bodies of some thirty or so children trapped in their seats.
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I turned my head towards aisle three to stare down Vader, but I was afraid of being turned into a pillar of salt so I averted my eyes.
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Now, of course, the judges/justices can try to distinguish precedent, etc. but that doesn't eliminate the fact that stare decisis has some inherent value in constraining judicial decisionmaking.
Balkinization
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He stared me in the face for a good two minutes and then told me that I couldn't be served wine as I was still a teenager.
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It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
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His eyes wide, he stared at the back of the church with utter amazement.
Christianity Today
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As he looked down at his tiny godson, the infant opened his eyes, turned his head, and stared straight up at the glass screen.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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Lena simply stared at him across the table, open-mouthed, speechless, to say the least.
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Sarah turned away to the oven where the casserole was cooking, aware of her daughter's accusatory stare at her back.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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I have told Caleb about my conversation with Fisher, and now we both stare at the ceiling, as if the answer might appear, skywritten with stars.
Perfect Match
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Her stare was malevolent, her mouth a thin line.
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Her father glowered down at her a moment before shifting his hard stare to Robert.
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The man continued to stare, the muscles of his jaw flexing.
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Ruin stared him in the face.
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The bigger buffed man retreated cowardly to the other side of the gym while people stared at the commotion.
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Emerging into daylight, they are the subject of curious stares from passers-by.
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The outside world shrank down to the space of the secluded grotto, the powerful, stern-faced man in front of her, the measureless depths of his stare.
Earl of Durkness
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Both creatures were petrified into the mutual stare that is of the hunter and the hunted, the preyer and the prey, the meat-eater and the meat.
CHAPTER XX
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As defeat stared him in the face he ordered his cavalry to cut their way through the enemy lines and escape to Plymouth.
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De" was endowed with the meaning "moral" at the beginning of Chou Dynasty because of the development of "stare" and was thought as an inner quality that may belong to everybody.
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Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
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Those who stared longest were more willing to share a toy in tests.
The Sun
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She fixed him with a cold stare.
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He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high.
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Stare Decisis has some positive features, like providing for constant interpretions of law across different cases, but also negative ones, like allowing a body of judge-made rules to supplant the original constitution.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legislating Miranda Rights for Terrorism Cases?
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After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
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He stared into Johnny's face for several seconds, turned abruptly on his heel and strode away without looking back.
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Andy hopped up on the table for a minute, stared at her, then slapped Mia across the chops, drove her out of the seat, and settled in her place.
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The policeman stared at his eyes when questioning him.
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A foot of gory steel stood out of his back, and blood sprayed from his mouth as he stared down at the sword in his guts.
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Hundreds of people suddenly converge on a laundrette and silently stare at a washing-machine while eating bananas.
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I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
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It was hard to tell, judging from her vacant stare totally fixed on the old man in front of them.
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She pondered her plan while she stood at the luggage carousel and stared blankly at the conveyor.
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Deep blue eyes stare at me, cold and hard, and my heart is racing with fear.
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she stared at him blankly
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They grin and stare, while fellow classic car drivers hoot and wave.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before long, Titan replayed Mario's nomination for Steve in which he claimed that Steve often stared at the girls too much and that his behaviour seemed to be "pervy".
All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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The trip to the foundry was a short one, and the three scientists of Earth stared at what they saw -- thousands of tons of platinum, cast into bars and piled up like pig-iron, waiting to be made into numerous articles of every-day use throughout the nation.
The Skylark of Space
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Lor, feeling a little embarrassed about confessing something like that, turned away from Kite and stared at her current work of bandaging.
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Anyone who has stared in disbelief at an airport bureau de change screen offering one euro for a pound will know that sterling has not fared well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he stood there and stared after it for a long moment, his expression brooding.
SUSPICION
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Her stare was malevolent, her mouth a thin line.
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It’s funny how much people stare when a limo goes past considering I don’t think any real celebrity would actually drive around in a white American party limo
why would they?
The-moo Diary Entry
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I shove the book back into my bag and stare into space for a while.
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The little boy stared at the pregnant woman's rounded belly.
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Sometimes she sits in a lounge chair on the back porch and stares off into space.
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He lay on his back and stared up at the hazy image of the clouds.
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Nothing could be gathered from the outside, except remarks on the various properties which philosophers ascribe to matter, -- length, breadth, depth, and weight, The packet was composed of strong thick paper, imperviable by the curious eyes of the gossips, though they stared as if they would burst from their sockets.
The Antiquary — Complete
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stared hard at the accused
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All she could do was stare, still in awe of his flawlessness.
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She flittered into the crowd, leaving me and the seal to stare at each other.
Brush of Darkness
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So, when my formidable granny asked me, from the other end of the table, to repeat my request, the entire family stared.
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The leader tries to seduce Kirk while Rosie stares daggers, Billie tries to make time with the lunkhead and all of the women avoid the lecherous behaviour of the crusty father.
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He stared out of the window in silent meditation.
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Fox stared stonily ahead, watching the grey of false dawn filter into the star-studded sky, ever aware of the orange glow behind him.
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The penniless stand at the sea wall, dangling hooks into the surf, and stare out at the oil tankers queuing up in the bay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jules was on his back, his expression fixed in a blank stare.
Hush, hush
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She stood in a defensive stance, not backing down from his stare, fists clenched at her sides.
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The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
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They're browsing the wet grass the snow has left and, statued, stare at me in deep silence and I see whatever light there is gather to glossy pools in their eight mild, barely curious but wary eyes.
What Light There Is
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Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety?
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Alice started laughing and Scarlet stared deep into her eyes.
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In the morning a cataphract from Ardor had the audacity to stare at Sire Galan as he marched along.
Wildfire
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And when some of the finer diners cast a disdainful eye upon their shabby, old-fashioned dresses, the two women merely giggled and stared right back at them.
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Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, and Franklin stared at her with unblinking eyes, un-changing faces, and green hair.
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the defendant stared unemotionally at the victim's family
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They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.
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He stared straight ahead as the guilty verdicts were read out.
The Sun
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He rudely stared down my friend in the corner of the street.
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People don't actually stare, but we do feel sort of conspicuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ending really is one where you stare at the TV for about 5 minutes after its over and mutter gibberish.
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Relena and Tamika stared at Lynn, mouths agape.
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She gave the stranger a wooden stare.
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They had been craning over the gallery, safe out of reach, so free to stare.
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He stared down at the gleaming wooden floor tiles.
The Broken God
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Miss McFawn could stare down a cobra.
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I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
Carmen
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He stared into the fire to avoid her gaze, to focus his thoughts within the flames and the glowing embers.
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She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it.
Fish Story
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He stared at the half-written sentence and then crumpled the paper in his hand, tossing it onto the dying fire in the fireplace.
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I stared at it for two or three seconds longer than required, then walked out.
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An angry flush rose to her cheeks as she stared up into those gray eyes.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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I stared at the cigarette the girl was waving in front of my face.
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The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey.
Father Sergius
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Wink stared at the aim point on his FLIR display on the PTID waiting for the impact of their huge bomb.
FLASH POINT
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Eagerly she tugged the card off the Cellophane wrapping - then stared at it in confusion.
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He was still a serious pensive boy but slightly older, he didn't run so much, nor did he stare around him.
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A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me.
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If you are using your glasses to stare at the screen, she recommends an antireflection coating to cut down glare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amelia stared at him in shock for a moment, hardly daring to believe.
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He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won.
The Sun
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She gave him a long hard stare .
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Its mane and forelock were thick and black as well, and its deep brown eyes stared happily at Tam as she got the bridle from a hook in the stall.
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Shipman stared straight ahead as the foreman of the jury read out the verdict tothe packed courtroom.
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She could only stare at him with pain in her eyes.
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So 700 curious faces stared me down from head to toe as I walked up to the podium.
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Pat stares fixedly at the fuzzy diagram on their worksheets.
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She sat and stared at the letter in front of her.
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He then turned to stare at her, and Usagi realized that he had never looked that solemn and serious when he was with her before.
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As the fisherman approaches, the falconer's spaniels look enquiringly at each other, and his whippet, all four paws at attention, stares respectfully at such an admirable salmon.
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He stared up at the magnificent splendor of a truly Roman city, its grand architecture and its air of power and determination.
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The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
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He stared down at the water for a moment before he sat down next to it and slowly disrobed, easing his body into the water.
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“That sounds fun,” she replied, then turned her hawk-eyed stare to Derek.
Flirting with Disaster
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I was already shrivelling up for using such an expression outside a De Niro movie before she came back and added her death stare.
THE MANANA MAN
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I stared out at the gorgeous garden, covered with shady trees and thick grass.
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Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave.
Flashman And The Dragon
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She didn't realise she was holding his hand for so long, and that people were beginning to give them curious stares.
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The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery.
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He stared at the spider's web, and this afterimage of the Elder Eddas burned inside him: Matter is memory.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Freud's Jewish family fled Berlin for London in 1933, when he was just eleven (his father, an architect, was Sigmund Freud's son), yet his adolescent drawings retain a German tinge, feeling their way between the chilly stares of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) or of the Magic Realists (Alexander Kanoldt, for instance) and the more recent, doom-laden stridencies of neoromanticism and noir.
The Way to All Flesh
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unless shaking your boobage, pouting your lips, and giving faintly dead eye stares is acting, Scarlett Johannsson needs to find another line of work..unless its with Woody Allen because the man can take a talentless hack and make her an Oscar winner Mira Sorvino anyone?
Jessica Biel Is Wonder Woman, To Some Extent
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His calm demeanor is belied by an intense stare he uses as a laser guide for Morris to slide the stone down a path of strategic calculation.
Martin is straw that stirs unbeaten Canadian curling team
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Mr. Beaumont wheeled around and stared directly at Mathias.
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Without the hair covering the ears and that shell belt and all he wasn't some one you would stare at.
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He feels its stare before he spots it finally: a chesspiece two inches high.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.
Witch-Doctors
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He sat and listened attentively, supplying her with the occasional wide-eyed stare or gasp.
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He stared at the big chimney of the powerhouse, as tall as the trunk of a poplar in a "deadening" at home, and covered with vines to the top, and he wondered what on earth that could be.
The Heart of the Hills
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In a darkened hallway, a young girl and her parents stare after the teenager tramping upstairs.
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That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
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I stared at the cross and officer's badge hanging from ribbons on the rearview mirror, rather hypnotized the whole way.
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The same colour everywhere and then that blank, blue stare, that rose-red mouth.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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Immediately, Zach's eyes locked with mine in a glaring stare.
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It's not polite to stare at a girl in the face.
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That aside, Professor Paulsen's post fails to recognize that there is value in stare decisis from a litigants 'perspective.
Balkinization
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Cézanne stared so intensely at nature he began to take it apart in his mind, to anatomise it, theorise it, on long hot afternoons in his studio in Aix-en-Provence and then reassemble the elements of reality in paintings that are pixellated constellations of insights, recognitions, memories and flashes of desire or rage.
Google Logo Honors Paul Cezanne's Birthday (PICTURES)
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Aaron gave the solido of Erik a thoughtful stare, and sent his u-shadow into its public datastore to extract useful information.
The Dreaming Void
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There was a roman candle of sparks from the plane but still they stared.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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He's too shagged to swagger, but he'll stroll and stare.
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Alexander wakes with a start, gives a visitor a perplexed, somewhat bleary stare, then melts blissfully back into slumber.
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She stared at me with a blank expression on her face.
