How to Use stare out in a Sentence

stare out

phrasal verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cooke might stare out at center field and take a deep breath.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024
  • People would look, then look away and stare out of the corner of their eye.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Not that Mays ever stared out at the mound or was looking to fight.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cue this up for late nights sitting by the fire—or staring out the frosty window.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
  • He’s perched here for days, just staring out the window at a ritzy apartment in Paris.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Shota stares out the window, tapping his pencil along with the raindrops.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Cassie turned forward and stared out the windshield to the road unraveling among the shadows ahead.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The bobcat stared out at me, her visage grim and determined.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • There’s just one window, staring out at a brick building.
    Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
  • Her eyes passed over a man in pink-rimmed sunglasses staring out the window in Hyattsville.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
  • Goldy talks prices with me while curling a customer’s wig with an iron; the woman stares out the window, blissed out, at the rush of traffic below.
    Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the show’s final moments, Osha stood beside the Stranger and stared out at the ocean, having accepted her new path.
    Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 16 July 2024
  • One, apparently shell shocked, stares out at the viewer, stunned.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • And to stare out from the children’s bedroom onto the gas chambers was extremely intense.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Sitting next to it is a painting, staring out from the drawer, unblinking.
    Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The video shows Daisy standing and staring out the window, whining and panting as a shelter member tries to comfort her.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The children stared out the 7 train in awe as the city skyline materialized against an orange sunset.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • Rendered in dramatic shades of black, an 1883 print by the artist James Tissot depicts a young woman staring out at the viewer with wide eyes.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025

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