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LOOK AROUND
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look about oneself
Example:
look around to see whether you can find the missing document
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "look around" is one way to...):
look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
With a last look around and at the box which contained the vile body, I ran from the place and gained the Count's room, determined to rush out at the moment the door should be opened.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They would look around them, no doubt, and bless their good fortune, said Mrs Clay, for Mrs Clay was present: her father had driven her over, nothing being of so much use to Mrs Clay's health as a drive to Kellynch: but I quite agree with my father in thinking a sailor might be a very desirable tenant.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Her words were literally true, for we had hardly time to look around the dusty and moth-eaten apartment in which we found ourselves before the door opened and a big, clean-shaven bald-headed man stepped lightly into the room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was not yet dancing; she was working her way up from the bottom, and had therefore leisure to look around, and by only turning her head a little she saw it all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Upon the whole, Emma left her with such softened, charitable feelings, as made her look around in walking home, and lament that Highbury afforded no young man worthy of giving her independence; nobody that she could wish to scheme about for her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was so long since Emma had been at the Abbey, that as soon as she was satisfied of her father's comfort, she was glad to leave him, and look around her; eager to refresh and correct her memory with more particular observation, more exact understanding of a house and grounds which must ever be so interesting to her and all her family.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
