How to use "look" in a sentence

I listen to the voice in my head and look up the canyon

I look up and see part of a tree stuck between the canyon walls

As I fall, I look up and see the boulder crashing towards my head

I look up at the sky

I look up

Now look what you've done! Says the first voice.

I don't want to look at myself as I speak.

I pull out the knife and look at the deep hole I've made in my right arm

Steve gave him the latest license-plate number for Aron's truck and Officer Ekker sent his men out to look for it.

10.30 am I don't want to look at my watch

I step inside and look around

I look at my other arm

When I look at my arm, I see that it's in a strange position.

I stand at the edge and look down

Something makes me look again

I look down and see an area of green grass below.

I look at the clock on the wall.

When the captain of the American ship the Abraham Lincoln decided to leave and look for the monster, he asked me to go with them as an expert.

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

Could you have a look at him?"

I know! I'll look for some Bowers.' Then she thought, 'No, it's too hot for that and I feel sleepy.'

'I know! I'll look for that beautiful garden.'

'Oh, look! The Mouse is asleep again,' said the Mad Hatter

Alice said, 'A cat can look at a King

She didn't look at the Cat

He had a strange look on his face, and he came and told me to put on my football suit

He crashed into the room with a wild look in his eyes

It started to rain one day, and it didn't stop for two months! But we still had to look for enemy soldiers - and one day we found them

He tried to clean it off and not look angry, but I didn't want to wait for them to start throwing things at me! No sir! I started running.

I went to look for Colonel Gooch, and I found him in the middle of a group of policemen

Later, when we were back in the garden, the President said, 'You were hurt, weren't you, boy? Well, look at this...' And he pulled up his shirt and showed me the place on his stomach where he was hurt once

I went up behind her and said, 'That looks like a nice apple.' She didn't look up

He didn't look up but, after a minute, he said, 'Perhaps you're right.'

And the next day he took Sue and me out in his little boat, to look for a good place to start the shrimp business.

I was sorry to see that Miss Niner did not look very well at all

Beckwith paused for a moment to look at Slinkton

Cross asked him to come and look

He thought it was somebody falling against the fence, but he did not look to see what it was

Mr Diemschutz, anxious about the safety of his wife, went into the club to look for her

Jack the Ripper wanted more blood, and he went to look for another victim.

After the murder of Elizabeth Stride, Jack the Ripper went to look for another victim

Then they went off to look for the killer.

Many of them paid to look at the murder scenes from windows

'Of course.' The innkeeper turned to look at him

'The man is in rags and has an evil look on his face

Early the next morning, while the bishop was studying the flowers in his garden, Mme Magloire ran out of the house with a look of alarm on her face.

The boy, suddenly afraid of the mad, fierce look in Valjean's eyes, turned and ran.

He stared at the coin with a look of puzzlement, as if he were trying to remember something

'Why don't you sit down for a minute? You look tired

'I left Paris this morning to look for work in Montreuil,' she continued

She took Mme Thenardiers hand and said, 'Will you look after my daughter for me?'

'Then we agree to look after her for you,' he said.

Fantine earned less and less money from her sewing, and the Thenardiers demanded more and more money to look after Cosette

At last she would be cared for, and she could look forward to a life of happiness with Cosette

Inspector Javert walked into his office, and stood in silence waiting for him to look up from his work.

Madeleine to stare at the papers on his desk with an empty, puzzled look in his eyes.

He sat by her bed for an hour and then, having told the nurses to look after her, he returned to his home

'You've killed her!' he cried angrily, turning to Javert with a fierce look in his eyes.

'That nasty little girl, who isn't even my own daughter, who I feed and look after out of the kindness of my heart, has been playing with my daughters' doll.'

We have our own daughters to look after

I can't afford to look after other people's children, too.'

How could I have thought such a thing? After speaking to him this evening, I can see that he doesn't look like the inspector at all.'

But, as the church bells of the city struck eleven o'clock, something made him look back

Every few minutes, he stopped in the shadows of a doorway or at the corner of a street to look back

But if you give the boy to me, and promise never to see him again, I'll look after him.'

He walked around slowly, stopping to look at the ducks on the lake, then casually approached the bench where Mile Lanoire and her father were sitting

'It gave me so much happiness just to look at her, and now, through my stupidity, I've lost even that.'

Leblanc and 'Ursula' tried to comfort her, Jondrette approached his wife and said in a whisper, 'Take a good look at that man.'

'Is that what you want?' she said, a disappointed look on her face.

Still wearing the same rags, with the same bold look in her eyes and the same rough voice, she had somehow become more beautiful

She stared at Marius with a look of pleasure on her pale face, and for some moments seemed unable to speak.

Marius still said nothing, and after a moments pause she said, 'You don't seem very glad to see me, but I could make you look happy if I wanted to!'

He told her not to worry, but she noticed an anxious look in his eyes

Cosette spent a long time in front of the mirror, making her hair look beautiful and deciding which dress to wear

Beneath the stars, they were happy just to look into each others eyes and hold each other's hands

Javert buttoned his coat, straightened his shoulders and, with a puzzled look on his face, began to walk off in the direction of the market

He stared into Valjean's eyes for a long time, then, stepping back with a look of confusion in his eyes, asked dreamily, 'What are you doing here? Who is this man?'

'Go in,' said Javert, with a strange, distant look in his eyes

Valjean went into his house and called, 'It's me!' Climbing the stairs, he paused for a moment to look out of the window to see what Javert was doing

I must look terrible

This is the first thing that I think when I wake, and I look around nervously, confused by the dark and by the thick fog which surrounds me.

I try to remember my face, I try to remember the colour of my hair or what my eyes look like

I look carefully at my clothes, but they mean nothing

I remember Catherine's face, but she is not smiling like she is in the picture, and her blue eyes look scared and desperate

Do I hear voices in the fog behind me? I try to turn to look, but the fog behind me is too thick, and I only see the occasional light in the distance.

When I look to see why, I see that she is not there: the white ropes are still tied to the stone, but she is not.

And look, the blood behind his ear is where she hit him before she escaped."

I look at our reflections

Then I tie their hands, and I look at my watch

I look at my watch

Bank manager receives two hundred and forty thousand pound salary despite bank failure." He stops and tries to turn to look at us, but Robin pulls the trigger back on the gun

Beethoven fills the silence again, and I look at Robin and see that there is sweat on his face too, but Hastings does not move.

She's only going to be one minute!" he shouts, and the attendant stops and gives him a long, hard look with his cold, blue eyes.

He then gives him another long, hard look, but Oliver does not care.

For five minutes Oliver rows, and soon the jetty and the hotel look much smaller, while the attendant is almost impossible to see in the half-light of the new evening.

Just one look back at the jetty to be sure no one can see, he thinks, and he turns his head.

"Easily," she says, but again she pauses, and Branwell sees her turn quickly to look over her shoulder

It is a cold smile, but Branwell sees that the man's eyes look a little more alive now

They look for drugs and weapons

They do not look for sixty thousand pounds of uncut diamonds.

They both look similar: messy blond hair under hats that are the same colour as their khaki shorts and shirts

And he thinks he sees one of the brothers look at his bag again

They don't even look at us twice."

You do what I say, no problem." And Nick looks at him for a moment: "You look okay now: these new clothes aren't bad."

"You have to look good, kid

You have to look like them," he says.

The man does not use the camera and does not look at the map

Maybe he should look inside, he thinks, just to make sure.

Just look at the view out there." And from the large glass windows they can see the majestic figure of the Statue of Liberty as the ship slowly moves away from the port of New York and heads into the deep of the ocean.

Oh my, look, here we are, table six

"Oh, but can I trust you three to look after Eleanor? This is her first night, and her first cruise

"Oh, I think I can look after myself," responds Eleanor, and again Carolina thinks what a sweet, lovely thing she is

"Fascinating," she says, and all three look happy that she thinks so.

And also a fire can look like an accident.

Something which makes them stop and look at each other.

So you listen, and you look, and you try to remember what it was that woke you

The door of your wardrobe is open, and the clothes inside look like three or four small burglars watching you

And so you wait, and you listen, and you look, and you tell yourself one more time..

"Evening, officer," he says, and tries to look sorry

"I suppose it's this road: the desert makes it easy to forget to watch your speed," he says, and he thinks he sees the cop look at his hand.

If the cop asks to look in his bag, he can reach in, grab the bat and take a swing...

He wants to turn to look back to see if the man is following him, but he does not dare

He wants to sit down to look at them and moves closer to the edge.

The police car stops in the driveway of the school, and the two detectives get out and look around

The other detective, West, is younger and thinner but with an empty look in his eye.

The headmaster, Mr Bowen, does not exactly look happy, but he looks content

"Yes." Bowen stands by the large windows and does not look at them

Bowen turns from the window and gives Smith an annoyed look

Well, I suppose we could have a look around the school..."

"Show them out Miss White." And the headmaster does not look at them again.

"Sir, look!" West says and points to the top of a tower.

"Okay, one look, and then we go

"My God! Just look at that, Junior," Owen says with a smile, and he points to the valley and green forest below them

"The same? Well, I suppose, but look at it, Son

No, you don't need that today," he repeats, and he takes the mp3 player from the boy's hands, and he tries to avoid the angry look in the boy's dark eyes.

His wife Rhea is a good woman and pretty too, but sometimes he cannot help but look at Junior and wonder.

"At this time of year, we want to look for rabbits, Son, but if we can get a hare, even better."

"What?" Junior says, a scared look in his eyes

But there will be no fighting today: the few people that are here look half dead.

I look like death, she thinks.

The old woman two seats away from her does not look happy and she moves to sit in the seat next to Sarah.

"Oh, you poor thing, you look exhausted

"Are you okay, dear? You look a little pale."

For a few seconds she walks and then turns back to look at the tube train

Sala was so busy staring that she didn't look where she was going, and stepped into water up to her ankles.

"Take a look at your ultranet."

They connect your body to them and look after it for you - your food, your muscles, everything

"Hey, don't look at me like that

"You look very pale."

"Sala! You look like you've seen a ghost!" said Mom

tomorrow to look around

We look forward to seeing you in a week."

Sala didn't look at her at first, but when the woman spoke, she recognized her voice at once.

"Don't look at me."

"I said don't look at me."

Sala kept on running, forcing herself to look straight ahead.

Was this a trap? Where were they going? But the woman didn't look back; she wasn't going to wait

"So, you were right." Wena sounded disappointed, and Sala risked a quick look at her

She was staring out at the view with that faraway look in her eyes - that look that Sala now recognized

The next day, Sala started to look for her

Can I take a look at the letter again?"

What was that look in his eyes? A challenge or just a question? Whichever it was, Sala knew the moment had come.

How an excited look come into her small eyes.

His face was pale and his dark eyes had a sad, lost look

You must look at people when they are speaking

You'll need a nurse to look after you

'I'm sure I could look after Mrs Van Hopper,' I said

I sat down awkwardly trying not to look at him

There was a strange, faraway look on his face

'You can take the book and look at it, if you like,' de Winter said

I could look forward to tomorrow morning and the morning after

'No,' I said, 'I don't think so.' I tried not to look at her.

He saw the look on my face

You won't find it easy to look after Manderley

Don't look so frightened

'What do the rooms in the east wing look like now?' he said.

And for a moment I saw a look of hatred in her eyes.

She liked to look after everything herself.'

The windows there look down to the sea.'

Maxim did not look at me

I suppose she wants to have a look at you.'

I could not look at Maxim

'There,' said Maxim, 'look at that.'

His eyes had a dark, lost look

'I don't want you to look like that

'Why do you look like that?'

I could not forget the lost look in Maxim's eyes

People look at me and ask me so many questions.'

The sun was shining today and the cottage did not look frightening any more

Come and look at my car,' he said to me

I did not want to look at his car

I shall never forget the look on her face

It was a look of strange, terrible excitement.

It gave me something to look forward to

'You don't look well,' Beatrice said

Beatrice did not look at me.

Look after him, and look after yourself, too.'

Her face was grey with anger and the look in her eyes frightened me

'If you look pretty, I don't mind what you put on,' he told me.

'Are you ready? I want to have a look at you.'

I shall never forget the terrible look on her face

It was a look of joy - of joy and the most terrible hate

'Known what?' I said, turning to look at her.

It will look so strange.'

Once, Beatrice came up to me and said, 'Why don't you sit down? You look like death.'

Then at last Giles came up to me and said, 'Come and look at the fireworks on the terrace.'

You look very tired

I did not look at the cottage

When we sent the diver down to look at the ship, he found something else

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?'

I did not look at Maxim during lunch

You have lost that young, sweet look

I could not look at anyone

I could not look at him.

Take a good look at him.'

I saw a look of disgust come into Colonel Julyan's face.

I saw Colonel Julyan look thoughtfully at Maxim

Once again, I saw Colonel Julyan give Maxim a hard look

Tomorrow will be a long day.' He held my hand for a moment, but he did not look into my eyes

There was no need for Maxim to look so white and troubled.

You look up..

After some time, Nathan goes to look at the swimming pool.

'Yes, but look! There's a train coming!' says Nathan.

The two policemen jump out, and look for Natalie and Nathan.

The policemen arrive and look from Natalie to Bud and back again.

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

Now, anxious to complete her search for the burglar - who was beginning to look as imaginary as all the other burglars she had stalked on other nights - she opened the door to Danny's bedroom

He says I'd just make the performers nervous and cause the technicians to look over their shoulders for the boss when they should have their eyes on their work."

lots of royalty checks to look forward to..

You look terrific, Tina

There was something peculiar in his eyes, a speculative look, but it wasn't guile

She didn't want to look at the screen again, but she did

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

"The body's in an airtight casket, but it'll be even more deteriorated now than it was a year ago when they recommended you not look at it."

Apparently, when a child dies, one of the worst things a parent can do is refuse to look at the body while it's lying in a casket

"It gives the kitchen a pleasant used look."

"Do they bother to give their kitchen a pleasant used look?"

"Their hamburgers have a pleasant used look."

Elliot met the stranger's eyes and didn't look away.

He refused to look at the muzzle of the pistol

"Who?" Vince asked, but it was too late to cover the revealing look they had exchanged.

I'd better have a look at it, check the fittings, the incoming feed, all that."

In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard

She went back to the bed to have another look at the magazine, which she'd left there.

Grinning broadly now, Tom said, "Well, you can look at it that way if you want

He risked a quick look, shifting his attention from the road, but there wasn't enough light in the car for him to see what she held

"Let's look at it in the caf S 233;," Elliot said

At last, he and Tina went into the diner, trying not to look over their shoulders.

Michael and I were the only ones who were strongly advised not to look at the remains

You better take a look at it."

Then the guilt-stricken mother could have been permitted one last, late, ghastly look at the remains of her son.

So if you look at it that way, it worked out as well as it possibly could."

It does look like the road to Dracula's castle."

"But look at all the tire marks."

"Doesn't look like there's a lot of people inside," Tina said

"It made the politicians look good

"They probably did look a little bit like spacemen in their decontamination suits

Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room, but we didn't find anything important.'

If anyone could see me turn on the light to answer it, I suppose I would look like any other sleepy man annoyed at being disturbed

The camera was pointing downwards, and I made an effort to look.

Feeling more and more like Commissaire Charas, but trying to look unconcerned, I went on:

I was also afraid that he would look for and find the fly Henri had talked of

'Helene, look!' he cried

look!'

Refusing even to look at his closed hand, I ordered him to release it immediately.

Promise not to look at me or talk to me

I knew I would not find the fly Andre wanted me to look for

Seeing, but trying not to look, I ran forward and put the right arm under the hammer

'He wants to look at all the Church accounts,' I said

I said I would look at Dr Stone's barrow.' And she wandered out again, and across the garden.

As I closed it, I suddenly decided to go down to our shed, which Lawrence Redding was using as a studio, to look at Griselda's picture while no one was there

'Will you look after Anne?'

'I've always wanted to be right in the middle of a murder,' he said, and went out into the garden to look for footprints

There was a watchful look in them

Someone's trying to make him look guilty.'

But if only that shot hadn't come just at the end of the call - well, I'd know where to look.'

And now look at this!' She held out a newspaper.

What you have to look for is a man with a bad cold.'

'We got an expert to look at it - to say whether the 6.20 was written by someone else

He did this to make it seem that someone was trying to make Mrs Protheroe look guilty

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

Nobody went to look for the fallen star that night.

After I had turned, I did not dare look back.

'What do they look like?' asked the officer.

Then they began to look for a chance of getting to the right side of the road

He was so interested in this that he did not look out to sea

I told the curate that I was going to look for food, and moved back into the kitchen again

The hole was only big enough for one of us to look through, so I had to stop watching them for a time while he had his chance.

However, despite the danger, we could not prevent ourselves from going back to look again and again

All that time I felt a growing need to look again at whatever remained of the little life that had seemed so happy and bright in my past

look it has been mended twice with silver bands that probably cost more than the pipe itself

I stopped for a minute in front of it to look for that strange face

I tried to look at my tongue

'We look up and see the moon and the stars

You look at the other man and say, 'What are you doing with your side of the tent?'

When you look at Montmorency, you see an angel from paradise, in the form of a small fox-terrier

When old ladies and gentlemen look at him, tears come to their eyes.

So each one of us climbed up on the chair to look for the place

At Hampton, Harris wanted to stop the boat and have a look at the church

It's very difficult to prepare tea, and you look tired.'

'Oh, look,' they say, 'the boat's gone to the middle of the river!'

You must not look at it

Harris went to look for his trousers.

Then he'll look up at you, as if to say: 'Please don't!'

'Well, sir, I don't think you look very healthy, after drinking all that river water

I can sit and look at it for hours

If you go swimming, they come to look at you and disturb you

Would it really be so dangerous? Doesn't one government car look like another - the hugeness of it, the dark glass, the driver in uniform? She can already see herself stepping out of the car to greet the other girls, who look at her with eyes like knives

'Sissie, you look worried,' said Mercy.

'You look serious today, why?'

I told her that blonde girls look nice in white

The man was too lazy to look after the interests of his own niece! I went to Limmeridge the next day and told him that no one should sign a marriage settlement like this - it gave the husband a large financial interest in the death of his wife! But Mr Fairlie did not want to listen

That honest, open look has gone

His manner, towards Laura has changed: he does not look at her with tender interest anymore.

He has intelligent grey eyes; when I look into them, I feel things that I do not want to feel

'Remember you are in the company of ladies!' They looked at each other, and Sir Percival was the first to look away

'What does she look like?' asked the Count

Well, I'll leave you to look at the registers.'

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick

Find him and look at his arm

This was because a lot of men did not come home from the war, so women had to work to look after their families.

People called her "the flying housewife", which is a word for a woman who stays at home to look after her husband and children

Other people said she had to look after her husband and her children! But Fanny started the 1948 Games by winning two races - one of them was the 100 metres

The goals are there to stop people from being poor, to look after the Earth and to stop war

Don Carlos' wife and daughter look after Captain Ramon's injured shoulder

We must find Zorro! We must look in every hacienda and in every home

They look at the door of the tavern and see Zorro

They look for him in the hills and in the valleys