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Main Entry:	stare
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	gape, watch
Synonyms:	beam, bore, eagle eye, eye, eyeball, fix, focus, gawk, gaze, glare, glim, goggle, lay eyes on, look, look fixedly, ogle, peer, rivet, rubberneck, take in
Antonyms:	ignore

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	gape
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	gawk
Synonyms:	beam, bore, eye, eyeball, focus, get a load of, get an eyeful, give the eye, glare, gloat, goggle, look, ogle, peer, rubberneck, size up, stare, take in*, wonder, yawp

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	glare
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	give a dirty look
Synonyms:	bore, do a slow burn, fix, frown, gape, gawk, gaze, glower, look daggers, lower, menace, peer, pierce, scowl, stare, stare angrily, stare icily, wither
Antonyms:	grin, smile

Example Sentences

We take them everywhere and stare at them constantly.

The freshmen, gawky in their fatigues and heavy boots, slouch in their seats and stare dutifully at the screen.

Fix bankers with a hard stare and their swagger soon fades.

We take them everywhere and stare at them constantly.

The freshmen, gawky in their fatigues and heavy boots, slouch in their seats and stare dutifully at the screen.

Fix bankers with a hard stare and their swagger soon fades.

Instead of having docile eyes, he would look at the keepers and stare them down.

Infants tend to stare longer at events that surprise them compared with what they expect.

Valentino was a silent film star known for his seductive stare.

Like a gaggle of feathery statues, they cast a vacant stare up at the corrugated plastic above our heads.

After watching the video, the women rated the men who got a smile higher than those who got the blank stare.

We stare in the face of the bureaucracy and shrug our shoulders in a collective act of defeat.

It was an amateurish affair, in which she appeared to stare throughout at the wrong camera.

In the blink of this horse's eye, the blue sky becomes a counterpoint to its stare.

Stare at the tiny, central black fixation spot on the white cross in a.

They would think that the best way to resist the marshmallow is to stare right at it, to keep a close eye on the goal.

Students stare blankly at the faded periodic table as an old man scribbles on the board.

My first response is always to stop talking myself and stare intently at the culprits.

It's useful when describing people who respond to a question with a blank, slack-jawed stare.

Others take a quiet approach and simply confront the animals with a silent stare.

He's not going to let you stare off into space the rest of the day.

In a cramped, dimly lit room, three women stare at a bank of blinking video monitors.

Because you can now stare at your own enchanting visage, you'll get perfect framing and focusing every time.

During a lecture, don't stare at me or anyone else for over three seconds.

Politicians and newspaper commentators stare at the inkblots and see what they want to see.

It has never been so geographically stimulating to stare at a computer screen.

Stare at at ten watt laser for one second and your retinas will be permanently burned.

Some of the visitors hang back, stare dubiously, then wander off.

When he ends the riff, his listeners stare into space, parsing the awkward object-verb-subject sentence structure.

And one doesn't have to stare too hard at the charts above to see where the bulk of the growth in spending is occuring.

Sitting back in her chair, she gives her head a quarter turn to stare at me out of the corner of one eye.

If you want to stare at movies all day long via the internet, you should pay a higher rate.

Others clear their throats and stare intently, a warning to the user that this has gone on too loudly, too long.

All you can do is stand right next to the table and stare.

My upward stare lingered, even while my feet were walking in the other direction.

If you stare at the lettuce long enough, you'll see the wrinkles slowly move toward the back until they cover the entire thing.

Eboy's isometric ingenuity is something to stare at for hours.

His official stare through his trademark spectacles-part sneer, part aloof school teacher-can seem comical.

Having to stare at the boring, white wall instead of being able to participate in whatever was going on in the room.

The goal is to quantify and explain the dimensions of the irrationality, not stare at it frowning.

Suggest to a religious person that space is curved, or that time is relative and the stare deepens.

People at neighboring tables, mostly fair-skinned, stare at him as if he.

My son first started running in those a couple of years ago, and people would stare at him.

On it hang both the health of many of the baby-boomer generation as they reluctantly stare old age in the face and the financial.

How does one stare for hours on end into the mirror, admiring one's.

IN a futuristic penthouse with floor-to-ceiling windows and holographic artworks, two fierce combatants stare each other down.

Now there's a great administrator for you: someone who can stare disaster in the face and meet it with equanimity.

Just the beady stare of a squirrel and the harping of a jay hidden high in a red fir.

When you stare into the mirror and pick apart the little imperfections, you're doing more than being too hard.

Legions of nine-to-fivers stare idly at their office monitors, pretending to work in the few short hours.

Governors, senators and state legislators from decades ago stare at him from the walls, their faces frozen in middle-aged smiles.

When you stare at an image, the neurons in your retina eventually adapt to this unchanging stimulus and.

Some of the beasts stopped to stare at us and a few paused to rub their hairy backs against a tree.

Legions of nine-to-fivers stare idly at their office monitors, pretending to work in the few short hours before going on.

Stare decides to pick a name from the phone book and put that person under a hypnotic spell.

They stare at her in horror/disgust, and do their best to stalk away with dignity, while she nips at them.

As finance directors stare into the red holes that so many pension funds have become, more schemes will be closed to new members.

We reach the rim by dusk and erect our tents, then stand on the edge and stare down into the crater.

He's more for the long, insolent stare with a couple of slow blinks.

Babie stare at attractive faces longer than ugly faces.

They stop to have a long stare at me, and they murmur among themselves in their growing circle.

The posters show a red double-decker bus crossing a bridge as four floating eyes stare down from the sky.

If you get a blank stare as an answer, that tells you something important.

Eh, it gives them something to do now they don't have daily opinion polls to stare at.

Most astronomers stare not at the night sky but at computer monitors.

Everyone is wearing the same clothes, with the same blank stare on their faces, without a thought of their own.

Face adversity squarely in the eye, stare it down and defeat it.

Its expressive eyes stare out from the newsletters and funding appeals of conservation groups around the world.

Or you can stare at tiny screens and see your own fonts come to life, which is its own type of fun.

Every so often, freeze in mid sentence and stare off into space for several minutes.

He then asked each couple to stare into each other's eyes for two minutes.

Stare out the window for a while, get up and move around the house or take a walk.

From the start of any street you can stare down it and see blue ocean at the other end.

We're more likely to act on a subtle but continuously present message than an intermittent one we're forced to stare at.

Instead of getting flustered and angry, they could stare out the window and relax.

They need to stare playing their hands a little closer to their chests.

Then they would suddenly stop, stare into space for a moment, and set off in another direction.

She and her school-age brood stare curiously through the grille at the people and machines on the other side.

These are short videos in which the subjects simply stare into the camera.

So, each of the original members will want to stare at new money coming in with the new members.

Two women, a mother and daughter, stare grief-stricken into the.

Yet another is to light a candle a few feet in front of you and stare at the flame.

They seem to stare right through you, penetrating your soul.

Main Entry:	glower
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	frown
Synonyms:	glare, gloom, look, look daggers, lower, scowl, stare, sulk, watch
Antonyms:	grin, smile

Main Entry:	leer
Part of Speech:	noun, verb
Definition:	look at longingly
Synonyms:	eye, eyeball, gloat, goggle, ogle, smirk, sneer, squint, stare, wink

Main Entry:	look
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	visual examination
Synonyms:	attention, beholding, case, cast, contemplation, evil eye, eye, flash, gander, gaze, glance, glimpse, gun, inspection, introspection, keeping watch, leer, look-see, marking, noticing, observation, once-over, peek, reconnaissance, regard, regarding, review, scrutiny, sight, slant, speculation, squint, stare*, surveillance, survey, swivel, view, viewing
Antonyms:	disregard, ignorance

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	look
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	examine visually
Synonyms:	admire, attend, behold, beware, consider, contemplate, eye, feast one's eyes, flash, focus, gape, gawk, gaze, get a load of, glance, glower, goggle, heed, inspect, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, ogle, peep, peer, pore over, read, regard, rubberneck, scan, scout, scrutinize, see, spot, spy, stare, study, survey, take a gander, take in the sights, tend, view, watch
Antonyms:	disregard, ignore, miss, overlook

Main Entry:	marvel
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	be amazed
Synonyms:	be awed, be surprised, feel surprise, gape, gaze, goggle, stand in awe, stare, wonder
Antonyms:	expect

Main Entry:	peek/peep
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	sneak a look
Synonyms:	blink, glance, glimpse, have a gander, look, peer, snatch, snoop, spy, squint, stare, take a look

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