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look away

VERB
  1. avert one's gaze
    She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle

How To Use look away In A Sentence

  • I hear a sharp indrawn breath and I look away from inside myself to see Sam looking anaemic, her colour is so pale.
  • But, I also admit to once having seen my advisor's paystub on his desk (he had given me and most of his advisees a set of keys), and I didn't look away. That StatCounter Paradox
  • For those of a sensitive disposition, look away now. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, in situations like this, i'll just push my hand through and grab the pole, and then look away disinterestedly as the person who is leaning on the pole turns around to look at me.
  • The politically correct should look away now. Times, Sunday Times
  • The same courage that moved the great poet to write in his own vernacular tongue, instead of in Latin, emboldened the artists to look away from the received standards, and to follow nature. Outline of Universal History
  • I wouldn't have been able to look away if terrorists were bombarding the room and announcing the end of the world, I was that enraptured.
  • The swaggies always look away, or down; their hats are visors, and he never sees the colour of a swaggie's eyes.
  • A mere eight years after Sebald voiced grave concerns about Germany's propensity to repress the past, to always be ‘looking and looking away at the same time,’ it is now no longer possible to look away.
  • But I'd always look away from the sparkling party and see a thin girl leaning on the doorpost, her eyes hidden under shadows and watching me with a longing gaze.
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