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Sentence Examples Well, I just look up at my team-mates and they're all dressed up in green and gold. I'm off now to look up Dallas Zoo on the internet, and find out if they have aardvarks. There's no greater feeling for a neophyte author than having an unpublished writer look up to you as a mentor. The tubby, middle-aged sergeant in charge of the gate detail scarcely bothered to look up at their approach. I stuck with my instrument scan because it was too disorienting for me to look up and align myself with the ship's navigation lights. McCann then had the audacity to look up and whip it into the far corner without so much as a second thought. Maybe H. Zuckerman, presumably a tough cop, was refusing to give her name so they could look up her vital statistics on various computer nets. That way, if you that someone liked a film, you could look up and see what else they liked. He's very bright and intelligent and he's, honestly, probably the most wonderful person to look up to. As she sat there, an elderly woman came and sat on the bench next to her, causing her to shift position and look up. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting. Only after their new boss's back was turned did he look up and give Gina a quick acknowledging nod. He came and sat on a footstool at her feet, placing his hand over her book so she would look up. The problem is that my French vocabulary is so poor that I end up having to look up every other word in a dictionary so it takes ages. The bus driver didn't look up, so I flashed my pass in front of him then walked toward the back of the bus. Basically, I'd look up things that I thought were funny or goofy, and take parts of the songs that I thought were good. No one knew exactly what they would be tested on so most of the boys had moved swiftly to the library to look up royal etiquette and manners. Holding the protractor at your desired angle, look up the straight edge of the protractor. A noted man of letters paid a brief visit to Killoran's Bar last week to look up an old friend. Red coralroot orchids, pale irises, white-flowered thimbleberry, and tanoak look up to madrones that would be the giants of any other forest. Show More Sentences I spent that last day hoping to God that the landlord would not look up and keep the deposit. Little did she realise that a month later, she would be asleep on the sofa and look up to see him staring her in the face. You can look up both pitches on Smith's opponents' websites, in addition to their platforms, which have many potential discussion starters. Leaving aside the religious connotations of the word, an idol in the realm of pop culture is someone that people look up to and engage with. I gave a weak, watery laugh before pulling away a bit to look up at my oldest friend. Not once did he complain about me blocking his view even though I kept moving to look up. She was also face down in the common room, drunk off her head, with pervy James trying to look up her skirt. I slammed my drink down on the counter and the elder winced at the strident sound it made, but he refused to look up. Before he could look up, a strong, clear, voice shattered the silence of the room. One night he began to speak about the great warrior god who lived on the moon, and as he spoke, the girl chanced to look up in the sky. He had to look up then, because he was driving and the red light had changed to green. He could not resist the urge to look up, and when he did, his eyes became full of very fine, golden particles. Yet for all that, the Jew sitting in his sukkah will look up at the heavens and be at peace. You can probably find the detail if you look up the history of their public announcements. But for as much pessimism as he ladles out, there are equal amounts of anthemic choruses encouraging the listener to hold on, look up, get out. As you look up at it, the inside of the roof looks like a checkerboard whose squares have been battered and then flown apart. The sound of horse hooves pounding toward her made Annabelle look up in fright. The police prosecutor has used it in court to look up the driving history of people who were appealing traffic citations. I look up and see he is wearing rather academic spectacles, which makes him look slightly less threatening. He shielded his eyes to look up at the school clock tower, rising high above a sprawling mass of buildings and halls. Show More Sentences Trembling slightly, I look up at him staring hard at me, his pupils clouded over. There was no need for me to look up to find every single pair of hungry wolf eyes glaring at me, fangs bared and growling. She didn't look up, but saw it was a guy wearing a hockey jersey and tracksuit pants was the offender. A cameraman munching on a late night fast-food burger took a second to look up and yell over. Once he enters it in there he could have it look up the license plate to find out who was driving it. I look up the central stairs to a row of white doors with antiquated doorknobs. You can't look up anymore, only down at the ground, anxious to avoid a similar encounter. I finally look up at his face, because his voice is so loud that I feel my ears are ringing. How shall we ever admire our civic leaders if we cannot look up to them, to see a white silk glove raised in blessing, a ringed-hand greeting? Tessa turned to look up at Jake, who rolled his eyes before motioning the girls to join him a few feet away. The site also offers printer-friendly pages for, say, users who want to look up recipes at work, then shop for the ingredients on the way home. Then the sound of rotors is heard, and they look up, only to see the two Serpent helicopters hovering above them. We look up at the sky through a fringe of leaves belonging to a locust tree or a mimosa, the rows of lacy leaves forming a mantilla overhead. Rodriguez lofted a long fly ball as Damon could only look up for a cursory farewell. He is the kind of person that people want to look up to and respect as a leader. For example, someone could scan a code posted on a bus stop with their phone to quickly look up a web page showing when the next bus is due. They are players that the younger lads look up to and most importantly learn from. He is someone we can respect and look up to, but he's not so high above us that we feel low and downtrodden. I don't have many racing drivers as heroes because they can do things that I can do, in a sort of way, so I don't really look up to them. She walks around with some strange sense of entitlement and ego, thanks to her own narcissism and dumb fans who strangely look up to her! Show More Sentences The maids there didn't even look up as he lumbered past ovens and drying herbs. I look up at him and he's smiling so sadly that tears cloud my eyes before I can even look down. I drop the cold metal cross and look up at him, blowing a bubble with my gum. The final bell rings and the rooms empty out before the teachers can even look up from their books. I look up, and it's the developmentally disabled guy from my apartment building. He was shuffling papers around in a large file but stopped when he saw me look up. Her hair was a mess of tangles and knots, and she didn't even look up when we entered the room. She and the two men were on the very edge of the desert, where there was nothing but a clear, sapphire blue sky to look up to. You can look up artists in past issues, view reader art, buy T-shirts or take a gander at their links section. This could be used as a web-based look up table for predicting malariological indices from arbitrary field data. Like the index at the back of a technical book, the database uses indexes internally to look up your data much faster. You can look up the most wanted criminals all over the world at Most Wanted, a site that links up to law enforcement's desired baddies. He always gives 100 per cent week in, week out, is a very consistent player and is somebody youngsters can look up to. With three scoreless innings from the Badgers, things were starting to look up heading into the seventh. No matter how tall I grow I'll still have to look up to you, you big lanky ganch. So you could then look up their marriage certificate, which would have their parents' names on it. It's great for a front-row forward to look up from a scrum and see the ball trickling into touch 40 metres down the pitch. That screen is the powder room jutting into the space below, so bathers can look up and see the sky plus see the powder room. As I read on the couch, something scuttles across the floor and I look up from the pages. The verb base is what you look up in the dictionary when you want to know how to say something. Show More Sentences He called upon the gathered journalists from Canada, Britain, the US and the region to lift their eyes from the mud and look up at the stars. Burros wander the streets and you look up and see nothing but bazillions of stars. I didn't actually look up but there's a particular creature amongst the whales, a beaked whale, do you have that listed? I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons. If you don't like the cuties in designer T-shirts around you, use your binoculars to look up at the ones on deck at Tonic. The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily. I feel a few gentle taps on the top of my head, and look up to see a man looking down at me. She didn't look up until he had ascended the porch steps and rapped his knuckles on the railing. It wasn't until he heard the first mewling cries of his child that he even dared to look up in wonder of that miraculous sound. I look up at the sign listening when the next bus was coming as he begins whining like a child at me. I look up at Jeremiah whose rearranging the white lilies on the coffee table in front of the couch. I finally sneak a look up at him, suddenly feeling incredibly raunchy and dirty. When he turned to look up at her, it was with a wild look, a hope so anxious it almost hurt her to see it. I used to deliver milk to her house on my milk round, and sometimes I'd look up to her bedroom window and she'd be there watching for me. As we admire rows of pineapples, betel leaves and birds-eye chillies, I look up and realise that we are under tall coconut palms laden with nuts. My step-father, on the other hand, is the paragon of a father figure and someone I can look up to as a role model. Are these so-called models and celebrities really people we could look up to and learn from? The deputy, who is a small, wiry man with long whiskers that stick out from his face in disarray, turns to look up at the hotel. Titles and badges are exercised as such a weapon, to which you and I look up wistfully. Edella beams, but doesn't look up from her yellow pad of paper and little drawings. Show More Sentences No less a wordsmith than Elizabeth Bishop reported that she had had to look up six words in Craft's Chronicle. Obeying a nameless impulse to look up, I detected the hair-thin outline of a square trapdoor in the high ceiling. Surely there are bird colonels and experienced combat leaders in today's Army whom the cadets could look up to and learn from. The boy didn't look up but instead kept on gazing intently at the boring grey material of the driver's seat. Her body twisted around to face the tree and she turned to look up into the wide assortment of golden leaves. She refused to look up at him but his ugly reflection appeared in the water. Anna placed a comforting, motherly hand on her shoulder, making her look up. I look up at him and see his face turn from mean and uncaring to concerned and guilty. When he heard the creak in the floorboards he didn't even bother to look up. Justin clasped and unclasped his hands in his lap but finally decided to look up at Jamie. We had to get up at one point and look up a word in the dictionary because he didn't believe me that it existed. Children as young as seven look up at a giant screen, necks craned and mouths open, as a man performs magic on a football field. I look up and see Christina, crying loudly, covered in frosting and punch. Of all the people to look up to for a back-to-nature stance, why the monster from Spahn Ranch? She smiled, and turned to look up into Anthony's watchful gaze. I love how when you look up flotsam in the dictionary it says jetsam. Instead, paramilitary gangs carve out fiefdoms to exploit drug-dealing and protection rackets, while young people look up to these criminals as role models. The coiffed and preened diners look up from such offerings as wild Alaskan sockeye salmon and goat-cheese tart. He would look up army friends, see about a job, then return. You can look up and down this street and see how raggedy it is. Show More Sentences So here comes the bus and I'm making sure to look but not look and maybe nod but not wave at her but as I look up at her window seat all I see is a look of horror on her face. He didn't look up to her, hardly even registered her presence. How often do you look up at the facades looming overhead as you saunter down the street? The characters often look up to the gods for guidance, speak of them and reproach them for putting such a predicament onto mortals of flesh and blood. Inside, the leaks were stopped, the floors retiled, and the beautiful stained glass was cleaned and outside you can now look up to fine white verandahs and pretty cupolas. As the patriarch, his family must look up to him, honor him. He did not look up as a black robed figure plopped itself down on the desk next to the book, and slender fingers played with the edges of the paper, riffling the pages. Barry has always been a hero to me, someone to look up to and admire! We need people we can look up to in order to make sense of our own lives. A sudden rush of wind caused him to pause and look up, hands trembling. You are the one they look up to and try hard to impress, you are the one they will bust a gut for, you are the one they will run to when they've fallen down. It was a light pat, but it made me open my eyes and look up at him. A corollary of this is to have star maps and a red light with you, so that you can look up the location of anything you haven't memorized how to find yet. She was beckoning to me, looking around anxiously, and I was batting people out of the way, but as I approached I saw her look up at someone beside her. She's a very dear friend and a great mentor and I really look up to her. A button can also convert a number between Imperial and metric units, or look up a word in the dictionary, or fetch data from a database or Web site. Like in 1995, if you met someone at a party who said they were a writer, you'd have to go down to the library and look up their books on the microfiche. I let out a shaky laugh and pulled away so that I could look up at him. Whenever the smoke of the grill became unbearable I would stand in the car park with a lime and lemonade, or sometimes a shandy, and she would look up from her book and smile. Things began to look up, she said in the post, when she met Phelps, 29, on tinder. Show More Sentences Neither my daughter, Jane, nor my son, Lewis, look up, both absorbed in a music video, their vague, trance-like expressions bathed in glare from the screen. Every time it rains, we look up at the sky and are shocked and betrayed. Hazarding a look up, I forget to breathe, never mind the coffee thing. Whilst the conversation heightens, a bang can be heard outside and the guests look up bewilderedly when they hear a woman shouting from the hallway. The noise caused Ally to look up and when she saw all the crisps, chocolate, marshmallows, sherbet and other such things she pounced on Luke to get them. We hired an expensive law firm to look up the law of bodysnatching. The world has watched genocide happening in Rwanda but we were too busy worrying about our own needs to look up and call anyone to stop the slaughter. Some sound makes me look up into the eyes of a bearded, unkept man. They look up at the sky and catch a glimpse of the unshadowed waning moon. A high-pitched voice squealed his name and made him look up. Customers can now take a virtual tour of the aircraft cabins, book flights, order special meals and duty-free items and look up jobs in the airline, online. Alex didn't bother to look up from the delicate task of removing burrs from the edge of the cup of fine silver that would, eventually, hold a cabochon cut tigers-eye stone. I look up at the hammers, vise-grips, and hatchets hanging above me. Together look up the derivation, the connotation, any prefixes and suffixes for the word, the root, the spelling rules that apply and the various meanings. If you find an old passbook for a building society no longer on the high street, you can look up where the money has gone on the Association's website here. The first thing he did was look up Wong in the Vancouver phone book. Do us a favour, get a dictionary and look up what a gradient is. I look up from the fire grate where the last papers brown and curl. She lifted her eyes from the bed to look up at her converser. I look up the hill at the empty black window with the lace curtain. Show More Sentences We're encouraged to look up with awe at the colossal deal-makers. I look up to see my mom in a pair of sweats and a dishrag in her hand. Or, these inseparable couples could be holding on for dear life, dangling just slightly above eye level so we look up at them pryingly, like equally helpless children. Maybe things would look up for her once her grammy's estate was settled. I also like when it's my birthday and you look up who else was born on your birthday and it seems like that's the strongest disproof of astrology. He would just lay in your arms and he would just look up at you with a glazy look. If you look up a colour wheel on the internet you'll see opposite colours on top neutralise, opposite colours next to each other intensify. The three traits will help a leader become successful because others will look up to them, and create a positive organization to work in. For example, a worker on the phone can look up the position of a customer's order and refer to past call notes entered into the system. But when the conditions are right, this prototypical bottom-feeder will look up and charge a topwater plug until it's latched tight to trebles. Visitors to the website are able to look up a place name and see the index entry made for the manor, town, city or village. I scribble the numbers on the paper, and then I look up with a start. If you look up Gondwana, you will see in the Late Triassic an area between Gondwana and Laurasia called the Tethys Sea. Old electrical items can be recycled at the Household Recycling Centres or, if they are still working, look up Freegle or Freecycle online. We keep going, locked into our little umwelts, only occasionally remembering to look up. And we look up into the rear-view mirror, and what do we see? Then I look up, and his shoulders was shaking, like he was laughing to have a fit. I asked the Yahoo to look up palstave for me, and eventually to my great surprise discovered there were 85 web sites on the subject. This is having someone followers look up to that has the ability to influence their behavior. When kids play, if the going gets too tough, they simply look up a cheat code to find an easy way to beat the game. Show More Sentences Just look up. The ceiling, or fifth wall, deserves just as much attention as its counterparts. She didn't look up and Luke could see she was all about the chips. Then she chanced to look up and catch sight of a redbird in a tree. To see the turbinates, just look up somebody's nose, Sobel advises. If you're an aspiring footballer, David Beckham may be your role model, while if you're a wannabe author, JK Rowling would be someone you look up to. I don't have one, but I look up to Josh Hill, a professional motocrosser. Instead of just sitting in front of the telly I'll sit in front of a sketch pad and whenever I do it I tend to look up and four hours have gone by. Someone you could look up to, feel good about children idolizing. They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer. That's the first time I've been called a polymath, and it doesn't feel very good, All the people before me who have been called polymaths are people I really look up to. Any Argentine winegrower wanting to count his blessings need only look up. The system features the Pinnacle's sales screens, so parts look-ups are extremely easy and allow users to look up multiple parts at the same time. Examples from Classical Literature One day, as they sat together at a rather silent dinner, a sudden thought made Pat drop his salad fork and look up at his father. If there is no sun I cannot heliograph and I have a host of signals to look up and get ready. Anton Martek, sitting on a chair beside the stable's open door, fashioning a ski pole, did not look up from his work. She was lying on a couch, wearing a housecoat, and didn't look up from the magazine in front of her. Even now, Burke did not look up, and his pen continued to hurry over the paper. So the Major smoked and thought, till a bark from the staghound made him look up. Because I had to bring home to you what you are and to whom you are not to look up. The intonation which his voice gave to it now caused her to look up quickly. Only the yellow dog was still stretched there, and he did not even deign to look up. The servants didn't look up to her pa and me very much, but they'd jump through hoops all the time for her. The rookies, too, look up to you as a kingpin pitcher and batter, and theyll be just clay in your hands. Every noted place of resort has an Indian legend, and the first thing I did after getting my dinner was to look up the legendist. I wanted to look up the consignee and see where he wanted the cargo of lumber. He smiled as he saw her eat the kernels, and look up in his face with a wondering, yet reproachless eye. Above these rocks we look up the stony bed of the frantic river and meet the blue mass of a distant mountain. I dared not look up, but kept my eyes on the four-leaf clover I was plucking to pieces. You look up on either side to the towering cliffs, and feel like a water beetle in the bottom of a gigantic cup. They look up some dresses, and properties, and have a piece written to fit 'em. To the right of the huts as you look up the kloof, and commanding the mealie lands, stands the baobab tree that I have mentioned. Just as he dealt the first stroke a low, mewling cry caused him to look up. Show More Sentences Enter its great gloom, go forward until you are opposite the rose window in the north transept, and look up. Mr. Ringold said that as soon as they got settled the boys could go to San Francisco to look up the shipping agent. But if you look up and smile with that countenance, I shall swear concession before I know to what, and that will make a fool of me. The quick trot of ponies feet made him look up, as one of the little carriages, containing a single young lady, came rapidly down the street. By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature, but when we are convalescent, nature will look up to us. The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. Mrs. Morton did look up vaguely into his face, and strove to smile. She beckoned with her hand, but the Wanderer did not look up. He is the chief dignitary of the borough, and the very pigs look up to him with a sentiment of reverence. When above, we can look up the Yampa for a distance of several miles. He will look up his list, and allot you the state-room you paid for. He reined the pinto under the trees to look up at that tall, Black Mass. Therefore it was necessary to look up the original Melvill stock of Bohea. Knowing that the Albatross would beat her to Sydney, the captain of the Albatross had undertaken to look up the dog. Just look up yonder, burl, and see how the crows have gone to fighting. Hervey busied himself with his food, nor did he look up when he spoke. He was reading a comic book, and he didn't even look up as they came in. He did not look up from the table as the commissioners entered. He was tying a most complicated knot, and could not look up. He stood up, held by a sapling, and craned his neck to look up the river. Show More Sentences The 366-page book works like a reference book so the reader can look up what is needed and then can do the work. Her hesitation caused him to neglect his crumpet, to look up at her. The day Darragh received the letter he started to look up sard. He was selecting a table, when a step on the verandah made him look up. He did not at first look up, but kept on with his employment. The click of heels on the flooring finally caused him to look up. Laurie was signing and sealing as he spoke, and did not look up till a great tear dropped on the paper. Will look up data for coming exploration of Amazon headwaters. He did not even look up in obedience to the old man's injunction. Sparsit's life, to look up at her staircase, and to watch Louisa coming down. Obviously the only way out is to make a pool and look up Nicolay and Hay. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Teton, then I slept happily, where my eyes could look up through the branches of the pines and the beeches, to the very dwelling of the Good Spirit of my people. Occasionally he would look up into my face with a low, pleading whine, as though begging for the word that would send him headlong at the bare throats before him. This amounts to idiocy, and once the damaging fact is established, thoughtful people will cease to look up to him, the sentimental will cease to fondle him. Last night Challenger said that he never cared to walk on the Thames Embankment and look up the river, as it was always sad to see one's own eventual goal. He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco-nuts and bread-fruit. He said that after Lady Hastings went off in the car the general asked him to take coffee with him in the library and look up a point about local antiquities. Find more words! 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