How to Use stare out in a Sentence
stare out
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Ken walks up to a park bench, and stares out at the water as the sun starts to set.
—Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
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Ken walks up to a park bench, staring out at the water as the sun starts to set.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
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Get cozy in front of your in-room fireplace and stare out the window at the landscape around you.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2023
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One man stares out of the frame, blood dripping around his eyes and soaking his beard.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
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He’s perched here for days, just staring out the window at a ritzy apartment in Paris.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
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The result is a spooky visage of some sort of golem staring out of the planet's surface.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
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Shota stares out the window, tapping his pencil along with the raindrops.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
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In the photo, the pop star is seen wrapped tight in the cozy blanket, while staring out into the distance with a regal pout.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
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The bobcat stared out at me, her visage grim and determined.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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Later, we are shown ominous faces buried and staring out from beneath a pit of black vipers.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
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There’s just one window, staring out at a brick building.
—Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
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Her eyes passed over a man in pink-rimmed sunglasses staring out the window in Hyattsville.
—Justin George, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
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Outside, a series of decks, one with a hot tub, includes plenty of room for staring out over the ocean and for stargazing on clear evenings.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
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To listen to the songs back to back is to hear the difference between a woman staring out a window and a woman pacing the floor.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
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Not the black granite wall—that sea of sacrifice—but the sculpture of three soldiers who stand their vigil by the wall, as if on the shore, staring out to that sea.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
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Waves crash against the rocks, tourists standing atop sheer cliffs stare out at nothing but blue to the horizon, and a historic lighthouse guides boats sailing along the rugged coast.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
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And to stare out from the children’s bedroom onto the gas chambers was extremely intense.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
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Sitting next to it is a painting, staring out from the drawer, unblinking.
—Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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There was Myra Thompson, who had been a few years behind him in grade school, perhaps also prone to staring out the window at the pool only White kids could use.
—Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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Throughout it all, Jack stares out toward the beautiful lake and is halfway through another bowl of grapes.
—Mike Wagner, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
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My four sisters and my mother stared out like Easter Island statues.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
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Reinhart posted next to a shot of herself in full Betty attire staring out of the window of her character’s room.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
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Shortly after Steven Tyler moved into the shelter, the rescue's staff noticed that the dog had a touching habit — he could often be found staring out the window of his room.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
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Men stare out from the pictures toward the unseen countenances of the people who were photographed looking toward them — and thus at the live spectator as well.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
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Imagine a kindly grandfather-type figure sitting by an open hotel window, staring out at the sea on the French Riviera.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
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Dawn was breaking, and Max was staring out the window at the minarets and minimarts and Soviet-era apartment blocks, a big grin on his face, translating the Russian-language shop signs for me.
—Paul Tough, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
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Visitors to Lincoln’s second-floor office in the White House shortly after he was notified of his friend’s death found the president staring out the window.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2024
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Roaring Kitty, smiling, stares out from Gabe’s computer screen.
—Lauren Schuker Blum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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Since February 2022 photos from Ukraine have shown such brutal cross sections: wardrobes and stoves and sofas staring out from the open wounds of high-rises, carefully tended homes charred and roofless.
—Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023
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As Lennon’s keening vocals rise up, Jackson juxtaposes a profile shot of Lennon staring out at the sunset with a floating image of the young Beatles goofing around in their prime.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2023
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