Use looks in a sentence
Sentences starting with looks
- Looks don't often tell the truth. [11]
- Looks so to me. [5]
- Looks good-natured, with little other expression. [6]
- Looks bright; anything in her? [6]
- Looks as if I wasn't as friendly as I used to be, doesn't it? [11]
- Looks like a full-rigged ship, sir. [9]
- Looks it. [9]
Sentences ending with looks
- Croesus, I understand your reproachful looks. [10]
- And how did you like his looks? [6]
- If you're dealing with him, don't think him a fool because he chirrups, and don't size him up according to his looks. [11]
- But there were white faces and trembling knees and anxious looks. [4]
- The Tory gentry, to be sure, rattled about in their gilded mahogany coaches, in spite of jeers and sour looks. [9]
- Cambyses was riding through the ranks, encouraging his troops by words and looks. [10]
- It was said that the recent high water had invaded it and damaged its looks. [5]
- It need not surprise you, for he is not as old as he looks. [5]
- I don't say so of this one, but I don't like his looks. [6]
- And, what was singular two stalwart police-officers walked behind with comfortable and approving looks. [11]
Short sentences using looks
- He looks ten years older. [11]
- He looks so worn. [4]
- All looks remarkably well. [7]
- It looks that way. [5]
- And how unhappy she looks! [10]
- It looks "warmed over. [4]
- Everything looks so new. [4]
- How good it looks! [5]
- How pretty it looks! [10]
- How famished he looks! [10]
Sentences containing looks two or more times
- It looks to me, Jethro," said the senator gravely, "it looks to me as if you had something of a rebellion on your hands. [9]
- It looks small, looks small on paper, but it's got a big future. [5]
- Wherefore, when one looks down from an eminence, upon the compact mass of houses (so closely crowded together, in fact, that there is no appearance of streets at all, and so the city looks solid,) he sees the knobbiest town in the world, except Constantinople. [5]
- It looks fair, it looks real, but it is all a fiction. [5]
- It looks impossible, it looks incredible, but it is not. [5]
- He recalled her former words and looks and the words and looks of those who had seen them together. [2]
- When he is down on all his knees, flat on his breast to receive his load, he looks something like a goose swimming; and when he is upright he looks like an ostrich with an extra set of legs. [5]
- From the north cage one looks up the Neckar gorge; from the west one he looks down it. [5]
- The difference between a river and the sea is, that the river looks fluid, the sea solid--usually looks as if you could step out and walk on it. [5]
More example sentences with the word looks in them
- If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
- It looks like you're cutting out the minister, too. [9]
- Any one of your reporters will tell you that he looks sick.".... [9]
- If that is your plan invariably, it looks safe. [5]
- But I vow your hair looks better as it is. [9]
- She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
- It was indigestion, you know, and it looks as if it was chronic. [5]
- Well, Phil, if you do ever happen to see that Evelyn in the opera, or anywhere, tell me how she looks and what she has on--if you can. [4]
- Ivry man and wumman here at Tralee looks like an animal or a bird in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
- He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
- His looks, indeed, would have scared a timid person into a fit; but I resolved I would die rather than show the fear with which he inspired me. [9]
- It was far worse than he could have imagined, the way his wife took the affair, though he had imagined certain words, or perhaps only looks, from her that were bad enough. [8]
- I am so worried about him, and he doesn't eat anything and looks so haggard. [9]
- His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
- They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
- Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so longsighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length. [6]
- A solitary song-sparrow, without a note of joy, hops along the snow to the dining-room window, and, turning his little head aside, looks up. [4]
- And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
- Very slender limbs, with bends like a grasshopper's; sits a great deal, I presume; looks as if he might straighten them out all of a sudden, and jump instead of walking. [6]
- Go and talk with any professional man holding any of the medieval creeds, choosing one who wears upon his features the mark of inward and outward health, who looks cheerful, intelligent, and kindly, and see how all your prejudices melt away in his presence! [6]
- Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
- That pretty woman, who's just as nice as she looks, is Mrs. Victor Strange. [9]
- So felt he who wrote the epitaph of the builder of the dome which looks down on the crosses and weathercocks that glitter over London. [3]
- If a person who is born with it looks at you, you die, or something happens--awful--is n't it? [6]
- What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! [5]
- I don't know what there is about her, except that she seems to take my life out of me when she looks at me. [6]
- Do you know what the water looks like? [10]
- I'll tell you what she looks like in that hat and cloak--a bad woman. [9]
- I called up what looks of candour were possible to me, and told him bluntly that I wished Voban to bear a letter for me to the Seigneur Duvarney's. [11]
- This argument, from what looks like cause and effect, whether it be so or not, is what you will have to meet wherever you go, and you need not think you can answer it. [3]
- And what looks, what language he had at command, when he desired to put an end to my jealous complaints! [10]
- No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric. [6]
- The youth's answers were short and confused, but his looks betrayed that he would fain have said quite other things than those which his indocile tongue allowed him to reiterate timidly. [10]
- My eldest brother well-nigh affrighted us more when he presently joined us, for his hair was all unkempt and his looks wild. [10]
- He looks mighty well, these latter days. [5]
- He looks very well indeed; really majestic, and aware of it. [5]
- In the same way and with similar looks, these two glanced vainly at the onlookers with only a silent appeal for protection in their eyes, evidently unable to understand or believe what was going to happen to them. [2]
- And indeed it was; he tried not to seem to see the looks or hear the remarks as he passed along, but they were food and drink to him. [5]
- The handsome Anatole was smilingly talking to a partner on his arm and looked at Natasha as one looks at a wall. [2]
- The officer, who was greatly impressed by the gentleman's looks, led him at once to a trestle bridge which spanned the distance from the levee bank over the flood to a house up to its first floor in the backwaters. [9]
- I thought it was going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks different now. [5]
- The same question was expressed in all the looks that met his. [2]
- He is sincere, warmhearted,--his poetry shows that,--not in haste to be famous, and he looks to me as if he only wanted love to steady him. [6]
- Yet it looks warmer on the snow-peaks than in Berne, for summer sets in in Switzerland with a New England chill and rigor. [4]
- In describing a war or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event. [2]
- The looks the visitors cast on him seemed to say: "And what is he sitting here for? [2]
- The colony of Victoria itself looks small on the map--looks like a county, in fact--yet it is about as large as England, Scotland, and Wales combined. [5]
- The binding was very old, and the leather was worn, as you will see the leather of a pocketbook, till it looks and feels like a nice soap. [11]
- The house looks very clean, and, I think, is not damp; there is, however, still a great deal to do in the way of settling and arranging,--enough to keep me disagreeably busy for some time to come. [14]
- But what's the use of good looks if they scare away folks? [6]
- It looks at us the first thing in the morning through the window; as if the day were not long enough. [10]
- It looks to us as if he had altered the bill. [7]
- He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and shadows. [4]
- No, she looks upon him coldly, she snubs him, she says: "Who are you? [5]
- If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
- She could not understand him; for, as long as she could remember, his grave looks had always brightened at anything that had brought gladness to her or to her mother. [10]
- The gentleman descends, unchecks the horses, wipes his brow, takes a drink at the spout and looks around, evidently remarking upon the lovely view, as he swings his handkerchief in an explanatory manner. [4]
- Now if one turns and looks up the gorge once more, he will see the Schloss Hotel on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar--a precipice which is so sumptuously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. [5]
- Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled with throngs of people--many strangers were there, it seemed, by the looks they cast about--the church-bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from windows and house-tops. [12]
- In time the trunk and every branch and twig are incased in hard pure ice; so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass--glass that is crystal-clear. [5]
- It may be true--it looks reasonable enough--but as long as those parties can't vote anymore, the matter can be of no great public interest. [5]
- It looks exasperatingly true; and is distinctly offensive. [5]
- Suzon felt the troubled air round them, saw the dark looks on the faces of the men, and was at once afraid and elated. [11]
- They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
- He thought she took pleasure in having him push her wheel-chair up and down the piazza at least she rewarded him by grateful looks, and complimented him by asking his advice about reading and about being useful to others. [4]
- I dogged 'em to the widder's stile, and stood in the dark and heard the ragged one beg for the widder, and the Spaniard swear he'd spile her looks just as I told you and your two--" "What! [5]
- Let me talk to some gentleman down there among you who looks me in the face. [7]
- I myself helped to smash the other, which stood in the workroom that looks out upon the water. [10]
- One great drawback to Simplified Spelling is, that in print a simplified word looks so like the very nation! [5]
- It is easy to say it looks like a frozen river which occupies the bed of a winding gorge or gully between mountains. [5]
- When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress. [5]
- He had withdrawn to one of the back seats to see the performance; for as soon as the theatre was suddenly lighted up, he had become the object of dark looks and threatening gestures. [10]
- The foreman came to meet him with looks of enquiry as he said. [10]
- If you want to know how perfectly ridiculous a grown man looks performing such absurdities in the presence of ladies, get one to try it. [5]
- Wouldn't I like to interview her, though, get her story, how the world looks to her. [4]
- Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country. [2]
- Carnac Grier, true to his nature, had travelled from incident to incident, from capacity to capacity, apparently without system, yet actually with the keenest desire to fulfil himself; with an honesty as inveterate as his looks were good and his character filled with dark recesses. [11]
- As Faith said to him once, "David, thee looks as though thee could lift great weights lightly. [11]
- Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
- He is requested to get some water, to throw on another log, to see what time it is, to note whether it looks like rain. [4]
- I'm not easy to fool on the looks of a hoss thet's traveled the sage. [13]
- The counting-room desires to conciliate the advertisers; the editor looks to making a paper satisfactory to his readers. [4]
- They call her to breakfast with a salvo of artillery; and usually when it thunders she looks up expectantly and says "come in....." The monument to the author of "Gloverson and His Silent partners" is finished. [5]
- He became accustomed to all Elsie's strange looks and ways. [6]
- For a long time he did not utter one word; but, after a considerable interval, during which Mrs Quilp was almost paralysed with the alarm his looks engendered, he contrived to gasp out, 'If I had him here. [12]
- The more I thought of what the old man had said, and of his looks and bearing, the less I could account for what I had seen and heard. [12]
- I'm not much thought of hereabouts, an' Venters he sure looks like what you called him, a wild man. [13]
- It is as though one looks upon a scene in which one had lived and moved, with the friendly yet half-distant feeling that it once was one's own possession but is so no longer. [11]
- He often surprised those he met by his significantly happy looks and smiles which seemed to express a secret understanding between him and them. [2]
- She looks like this cloth, and since yesterday has refused to take the milk we daily procure for her at a heavy cost. [10]
- She gazed on this circle, including all she loved best, with anxious, perplexed looks, and at last, recognizing them one by one, passed her hand across her pale fore head as if to remove a veil, smiled at each, and closed her eyes once more. [10]
- She looks so thirsty--give her this. [9]
- Dickinson, privately, doesn't think much of Ribblevale paper, and Pugh" (the president of the Ribblevale) "seems worried and looks badly. [9]
- And the last thing he looks at is that which was also the first--the place where the true Cross stood. [5]
- And the first thing Adele would do would be to jump on him herself--a little wisp of a woman that looks as if she couldn't hold a Shetland pony! [9]
- She looks very thin and pale. [14]
- It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men who are not very [undecipherable word looks like "obnoxious"] to the charge of abolitionism. [7]
- He noticed that they whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind of awe and even servility. [2]
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