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observe with attention
They watched as the murderer was executed -
look on as or consider
He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician
she looked on this affair as a joke
He is reputed to be intelligent
How To Use look on In A Sentence
- But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
- He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
- Ryo smiled, a secretive look on his face, and hugged her.
- The mother of the chillun was a good lady an 'she let me look on the books when she read to them an' larned me the lessons 'long with her chillun. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
- James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
- She had a cigarette butt between her lips and a genial look on her face.
- I'll never forget the look on her face the first time she sat on the old nag!
- Rare started with the underrated Blast Corps, which exampled how well explosions could look on the N64.
- I remembered the look on Jim's face as he slopped through the slush in Rye, mulling young John's fate.
- The look only lasts in its original form for a day. Times, Sunday Times
