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look away

verb as in avert

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Example Sentences

“We want to look away, but we must not,” said ranking Democrat Elliot Engel.

You may want to look away but James and his camera, wisely, do not.

It's excruciating to witness, but (thanks to McEwan's incredible gift) you just can't look away.

LaBeouf's entire life is one long confessional and, like all celebrity meltdowns, we just can't look away.

I looked at him: I could not look away from his black figure and his white face.

A shudder ran down his spine; there was a sensation of inner cold against his heart; he trembled, but he could not look away.

He had to look away from her eyes then himself, or he felt quite suddenly that he, too, would have been undone.

She looked up, and met his eyes, and stared, and could not look away.

Tell him I've seen her look away acrost the mountains toward Paradise Park with her heart in her eyes.

He was a white horse, with some kind of pale-colored eyes, and whenever he turned them on Miss Laura, she would look away.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to look away, such as: avoid, deter, fend off, foil, forestall, and halt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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