look away

Example Sentences

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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

That’s why not only am I keeping up my photo of Chávez and Huerta, I’m going to put it in a more prominent place from where I can’t look away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The older girl had shoulder-length dark hair, huge brown eyes circled in black, and firetruck-red lips that were hard to look away from.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty