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Recent Examples of leer
Noun
The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024 Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Verb
Like something straight out of a horror movie, the leering figure looks ready to pounce.—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of limp, blonde hair.—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leer
The cruel comments and stares have left permanent emotional scars that have led to deep battles with mental health and feelings of low self-worth.
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Andy Collinson,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
The two stare at each other, separated by decades yet both connected by the same horrible history, all of it tethered to the person lying dead on the asphalt.
Nations across the globe are eyeing the success of their neighbors in medical tourism and want in.
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Keydra Manns,
Essence,
20 Mar. 2025
Developers hope to include a restaurant in the new commercial space and are eyeing the House of Hits building, which collapsed in 2021, for a music entertainment venue.
Jacob-Jenkins has penned Naz as an asexual introvert, the kind of young man who finds solace in nature and lakes and everything that takes him far away from either his father’s infidelity or the glare of political attention.
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Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
Overhangs and sun-shading louvers outside of the kitchen and family room control glare without blocking the views to Lake Michigan below.
Elsewhere, shadow gapes invite light to flow through the property (another reference to the island’s volcanic origins).
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Christopher Cameron,
Robb Report,
27 Jan. 2025
Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.
While the current valuation might seem steep at first glance, projected sales growth averaging approximately 25% annually over the next three years, coupled with potentially much stronger earnings growth, suggests the premium may be justified by the company’s improving financial outlook.
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Trefis Team,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
At first glance, sphinx pose and cobra may seem like one in the same.
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