look away

Example Sentences

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"We had gone out for a really nice dinner and I'd been trying to look away from football for the evening," he told BBC Sport.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The TV Dinner was an early, if unintended, step toward our current world in which unblinking people can’t look away from the screens they carry everywhere, oblivious to what is going on around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

But the answer to a risk you can’t see clearly is not to look away.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Pitchford asks whether either promise still has real force when the record is messy, the procedure rushed, and the law of review designed to look away.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Ekon closed his eyes and clasped his hands together, The images came unbidden; he expected them to, but he tried not to look away from them.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray