How to Use at it in a Sentence
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As Michalek looked at it, a door opened on the side of the building.
— Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023 -
The 49ers like to play zone defense and are good at it.
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024 -
The senses gather up the scene, and the heart runs right at it and leaps in.
— Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024 -
And then the whole world looked at it, saying: ‘Wait a minute.
— Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 May 2024 -
And to let off stress, the new chief likes to go at it with a punching bag in the station.
— Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024 -
To be able to do all of this, and excel at it, is a feat not lost on Locke.
— Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 21 Mar. 2024 -
An easy way to commune with the moon is to go outside and look at it.
— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023 -
López told me that Foster turned out to be very adept at it.
— Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2024 -
Some of the works have humor to them, but that’s just one way of looking at it.
— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024 -
The Heat is right back at it on Tuesday to complete the West Coast back-to-back set.
— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024 -
So, look at it this way: Jack Murphy was a man for his time.
— Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023 -
Try your hand at it with a little help from our Test Kitchen.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024 -
This can put you more in control of your data and who gets to look at it.
— Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023 -
Well, one way to look at it is the U.S. team, until Monday, hadn’t won a medal since 2008.
— John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024 -
Eat the wing down to the bone in a matter of seconds, stare straight into the camera, and then throw the wing at it.
— Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024 -
Pointing your phone at it took you to a site with pro-Matildas chants.
— Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023 -
There will even be space for visitors to try their hand at it.
— oregonlive, 12 July 2023 -
With my parents, there’s two ways of looking at it, right?
— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Do not dare try to look at it with your bare eyes or sunglasses!
— Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Another sat for a long while by the trap, just looking at it.
— Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
The principal was saying ‘Don’t look at it as a bad thing.
— Athena Jones, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023 -
Jaylen Harrell also looks at it as a good-on-good matchup, as the two teams’ strengths lie in the trenches.
— Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023 -
After glancing at it, Jones strained not to let her anger show.
— Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Expensive for his role, but perhaps best in the league at it.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023 -
While at it, get rid of leftover party supplies that look worse for the wear.
— Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Evan thinks that most people who try it are failing at it.
— Outside Online, 17 July 2024 -
Now playwright Paul Slade Smith is taking a crack at it.
— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023 -
There are some authors who are so good at it and somehow still get their... books out.
— Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 23 June 2023 -
Some people my age that have been at it for a while lack a certain kind of energy, a kind of a belief.
— Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024 -
Hand made with incredible precision and beautiful lines, I’ve been known to take this thing out of my pocket just to look at it!
— Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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