How to use "looking" in a sentence

I'm on a high rock, looking down at the trail

They turn, looking a little nervous

I just stand there, looking at my trapped hand in disbelief.

It came to me, as I was looking at all the rocks around me

On Thursday, May the 1st, Kyle Ekker was looking at a map of the Canyonlands area on his office wall

We've found the truck you're looking for

"Well, I enjoy this room, but what I really prefer is looking out there."

Behind them, there were large glass windows looking out onto the sea

We all laughed, then continued looking for fruit and vegetables

I saw Captain Nemo looking through a telescope at something far away

I had a small telescope with me, so I put it up to my eye to see what he was looking at

We were looking through the underwater windows at the beautiful fish

There are many sharks in these waters, and it's very dangerous to go looking for pearls there.

Conseil, Ned and I were in the museum, looking out at old stone walls, 5,000 feet under the sea.

'He's looking for his hat,' thought Alice.

I tried to put my hands in front of her, because there were people looking at us

He was looking very worried until he saw me.

'You're just the kind of person that they're looking for!' the doctors told me.

But the other man was looking at me

Suddenly the man noticed that I was looking at him

She had a comb, a white handkerchief, and a broken piece of looking-glass

She thought he was looking up Miller's Court 'as if waiting for someone to come out'

'What can I do for you, Monsieur?' he asked without looking up.

At that time he was looking after his sister, whose husband had died, and her seven children

Madeleine, looking hard at Javert without expression, said quietly, 'I'm afraid I don't understand.'

She's looking forward to seeing her child.'

'This is a very heavy bucket for such a small child,' he said gently, looking down at her from his great height.

Then, as her eyes adjusted to the light, she saw the kind old face of Jean Valjean looking down at her, and she relaxed.

Now, he discovered the greatest joy he had ever known by just standing beside her bed and looking at her innocent, trusting little face

The man, who was perhaps sixty, had white hair and a serious but friendly-looking face

For the next few days he passed the bench in the Gardens without looking at her

When he felt that they were near him, he looked up and saw that the girl was looking steadily at him with a soft, thoughtful gaze that made him tremble from head to foot.

Every day for the next month, Marius went to the Luxembourg Gardens, excited by knowing that the girl was secretly looking at him, but too shy and embarrassed to know what to do

Sometimes he stood for half an hour in a place where her father could not see him, looking at her and enjoying the small, secret smiles she sent him.

I see you on the stairs, and I see you walking around the streets, looking so sad and alone.'

She clapped her hands and cried, 'We've been looking for that everywhere! How did you know they were mine? Of course, the handwriting

An elderly man and a young girl appeared in the doorway and Marius, still looking through the hole in the wall, could not believe his eyes.

She did not reply but stood thoughtfully looking at him, seeming to have lost all her earlier confidence

You've forgotten, that child was ugly, and this one's not bad-looking.'

Leblanc said, looking at the badly-drawn picture of a soldier in uniform.

One afternoon he was sitting in a field, looking down at a small river, when his dreams of 'Ursula' were suddenly broken by the sound of a familiar voice

'I've been looking for you everywhere

'I can't hear you,' the old man said, looking annoyed

She rested her head on his knee and said without looking at him, 'Oh, what happiness

'I'm looking for Number Seven

Only Marius, looking over his shoulder, saw them cross the stronghold towards the smaller barricade

He had been looking after wounded men while bullets flew all around him

Gillenormand saw his pale, lifeless-looking grandson lying on the sofa, he shook from head to foot

Valjean would sit looking at Cosette in silence, or would talk about incidents from their past

High and hot, and looking down on the crowds of people which wait on both sides of the empty road.

We are standing there in front of the glass doors, and no one is looking at us

No more listening to that awful laugh, no more looking at her boring face

He hears another shout, and knows that the man is nearly here, but the camera is not looking at him

Several people saw the defendant walking around Bristol looking for Mr Dawson

"Look," she says, her voice different now, "I saw you looking at me yesterday

The gardai are everywhere, and they are looking for him

He looks to the right wall and sees what he is looking for: a large wooden box with two doors.

the police are looking..

the police are looking..

The boy looks bored already, and he is not looking at the gun bags with interest any more.

And a strange-looking man in a coat in the corner.

They sat down to eat their taste-pots, looking out at the beautiful view and watching the waves roll up the shore

She was on the top of a cliff looking down at a valley, with fields and forests that went on and on

"Is he looking for work again?" Cham smiled, and shook his head

Instead, she turned the package over, looking for a way to open it

"Sorry," said Cham, looking back at Sala hurriedly

"In fact, I've been looking into that Pod Life thing that Ding told us about

She was still looking forward to the dolphin experience

Cham was already there, looking more gorgeous than ever in his silver suit.

She led them toward a row of strange-looking pods that stood vertically

There was a big conversation coming, and she wasn't looking forward to it.

"Niki and I passed the laboratory the other day - there were loads of people looking for work."

Sala hadn't been looking where she was going

Cham's mom and dad took the screen, looking first at each other and then at Cham.

Instead, she spent hours sitting on her bench in the Real Space, looking out over the city with a distant expression

Now, we're looking for people that the government is unlikely to miss

Sala raised her drink to her lips without looking at Wena

After looking around to check that no one was watching her, she slipped quietly down the passageway, and found the same door as before

She was looking thoughtful

Then they sat around the kitchen table, looking expectantly at Sala

"Mmmm," said Sala, looking down at her tea.

He didn't ask her many questions; and although his avatar was looking at her, his eyes were glassy and unseeing.

"What's wrong?" he demanded at once, looking around at their troubled faces.

"Well, I can recommend it," said Cham, looking straight at Sala

I followed slowly, my eyes looking down at the floor

'Manderley was looking very lovely when I came away.' There was another silence

I sat on a window seat, looking at the bright day outside

I could not help looking at it as we drove along.

He knew who I was looking for, of course.

'Feeling better?' said Maxim, looking at me

People were looking out of the windows of the lodge

They were looking at me

I have been looking after the house for the past year

He had small, stupid looking eyes

'Why should I run after the damned dog?' Maxim said, not looking at me.

'Mrs de Winter, you mustn't think that,' said Frank, looking at me for the first time

She saw me once, looking at her

'I beg your pardon,' the man said, looking down at me with a rather unpleasant smile

As I stood looking down at the bed, I heard a step behind me.

'I don't mind the work,' said Frank, looking at me

'I'm looking forward to it so much.'

I had never seen the old house looking so lovely.

'This is like old times,' said Beatrice, looking around

Why was Maxim looking like that? He moved towards the stairs.

I sat up, looking straight in front of me.

Someone was standing there, looking down at me

'Mr de Winter is not happy,' Mrs Danvers said, looking at me at last

'When she was only twelve years old, the men could not stop looking at her

'Frith will be looking for me

She stood looking at me

'It's the wrong direction, too,' Maxim said 'you're looking west.'

The police and the morticians had advised her that Danny was so badly torn up, so horribly mangled, that she was better off not looking at him

In the dream, Danny was standing at the edge of a bottomless gorge, and Tina was on the far side, opposite him, looking across the immense gulf

As Tina stood in this beautiful theater, glancing down at the colorfully costumed people milling about on the stage, then looking at Joel's rubbery face, listening as her co-producer unblushingly raved about their handiwork, she was happier than she had been in a long time

He was a rugged, good-looking man, neither big nor small, about forty

He kept looking at Christina Evans, who was as dazzling as the show she had created.

"You're looking at him."

The judge was a tall, dour-looking man with curly white hair

"Hell, you won't be able to tell them who we were or where they can start looking for us

Tina had been looking back at her house

Each time he glanced at her, she was either crouched forward, squinting at every new street they entered, or twisted halfway around in her seat, looking out the rear window

If you're looking for a freelance hit man, someone who deals in carload lots of illegal weapons, maybe a mercenary who can put together a small expeditionary force for an overseas operation - you can find all of them here

Everyone'll still be looking for us in Vegas, and we'll breathe a little easier if we aren't here."

Nearly everyone was engaged in animated conversations, couples and cozy groups of friends, enjoying themselves, looking forward to the remaining three days of the four-day holiday.

"We've been looking at this all wrong-"

I'm going to keep looking for some less exotic explanation."

She felt as if he were not merely looking at her but into her, through her

The bureau chief was a slim, elegant, distinguished-looking man

Although he was struggling to cast off the seizure of claustrophobia that had gripped him, was trying to pretend that the organic-looking ceiling wasn't pressing low over his head and that only open sky hung above him instead of thousands of tons of concrete and steel rock, his own panic attack concerned him less than what was happening beyond the viewport.

Elliot stared into the flat dead gaze of the pasty-faced corpse, and he knew that he was looking at Luciano Bellicosti

They'll be looking at you, and they won't see me."

"They'll be looking for it."

She turned, and she was looking into the grinning face of Death, as if he were peering out at her from the bowels of Hell

"According to the map, we're looking for an 'unpaved, nondirt' road," Tina told him.

"Hold it! I think this is what we're looking for."

They stood, indecisive, looking left, then right, and then straight ahead.

'Because I have again seen the fly that Mama was looking for.'

'I didn't know your mother was looking for a fly,' I said.

'I don't really know, Helene; but the fly you were looking for was in my study this morning.'

She remained quite still, looking down at her hands

Without looking round, I carried the bowl of milk to his desk.

Could it be the one you're looking for?'

I screamed again and again but could not stop looking at him

But Mary, who is a servant at the vicarage, just put a dish of unpleasant-looking cabbage on the table and left the room.

She was looking at Griselda as she spoke, and I suddenly felt very angry

There were very few people that evening at the Wednesday church service, but afterwards, as I left, I saw a woman standing and looking up at one of our coloured-glass windows

Instead, I was looking at a quick-breathing, desperate creature

He was still looking at the desk

I noticed that Dr Haydock was looking very cheerful this morning

His eyes were looking at the note in my hand and I have never seen such pain in any human being's face.

So good-looking, isn't he? Like a film star

Colonel Melchett remained, and Slack who was looking at the note

We left him looking after us with a hurt expression.

But a nice-looking young man, I'm sure they would tell him at once.'

We began to run, and inside we bumped into a very good-looking young man

"I'm looking for my little yellow hat," she says

But soon Dennis followed me into my study, looking upset.

'What?' She jumped up, looking wild and frightened

But I don't want all those eyes looking at me

Mary came out of the kitchen and saw me looking at them

She was standing by the window looking out into the garden.

'Oh, that is good news! He will be safe there.' She was looking at the pillbox

Haydock came into the room, looking very tired

And looking across space, with instruments and minds more powerful than we can dream of, they see, at a distance of only 56,000,000 kilometres, a morning star of hope - our own warmer planet with its green land and grey seas, its cloudy atmosphere and its growing population.

But, looking, I soon saw something grey moving within the shadow, then two shining circles - like eyes

Two large dark- colored eyes were looking at me steadily

It was the head of the shop assistant who had fallen in, looking black against the hot western sky

I remember the dinner table that evening very clearly even now: my dear wife's sweet, worried face looking at me from under the pink lamp-shade, the white cloth laid with silver and glass, the glass of red wine in my hand

When I lifted my head it was looking towards the guns that were still firing across the river

I used my hands to keep it moving, down the river towards Walton, going very slowly and often looking behind me

He spoke suddenly, looking away from me.

People there were standing on the pavement, looking in surprise at the growing crowds of refugees

We stood shocked by our danger, and if the Martian had been looking down we would have died immediately

I crawled back into the kitchen and saw him lying down and looking out of the hole at the Martians.

I went into the kitchen and saw its head looking in through the hole.

I went into a couple of the houses, looking for food, but all of it had already been taken

I saw a couple of hungry-looking dogs, but they hurried away from me

They were now looking for food somewhere else

I lit no lamps, afraid that a Martian might come through that part of London looking for food in the night

Before I went to bed I was very restless and went from window to window, looking out for some sign of them

We sat looking at each other.

We went together to the roof and stood on a ladder, looking out of the roof door

I stayed there for a long time, looking north over the city

The churches were giving out bread sent to us by the French government, and tired-looking policemen stood at the corners of every street.

I took a step towards it and stood looking out.

'I was looking at the cottage, when suddenly I saw a face watching me from an upper window

Why are you looking at me like that? Are you angry with me?"

I don't like looking at the trees

I started looking for it

I saw him looking at the church, as we passed near it, so I moved the boat suddenly, and Harris's cap fell into the water

'Thank you very much,' said George, looking around

He was looking for his clothes

Later, Harris was looking for his shoes

Your little sister's eyes are looking angry

As we walked together down the London road, looking for a carriage, she said, 'Do you know any aristocrats?'

A lady was standing by a window at the far end of the room, looking out

I left his room with a feeling of relief and spent the morning looking forward to my meeting with Miss Laura Fairlie

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.

Sir Percival is a good-looking, charming and friendly man

I looked away from her and saw my husband looking at me closely

An hour later, she came to my room looking agitated.

There was Sir Percival, looking furious

Mrs Catherick was a hard-looking woman dressed in black

They were not happy just cooking and looking after the children

"We are looking for Zorro