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LOOK FORWARD
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expect or hope for
Example:
I look to hear from you soon
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "look forward" is one way to...):
await; expect; look; wait (look forward to the probable occurrence of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
White Fang came to look forward eagerly to the gathering of the men around his pen.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to getting home to them. Is it not so?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Come, come, it would be very un-handsome in us to be severe on Mrs. Rushworth, for I look forward to our owing her a great many gay, brilliant, happy hours.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you again this afternoon.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass opened out upon the uplands beyond.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder, I own that to be able to regard you as the future mistress of Kellynch, the future Lady Elliot, to look forward and see you occupying your dear mother's place, succeeding to all her rights, and all her popularity, as well as to all her virtues, would be the highest possible gratification to me.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was possible, however, that some of his companions in the —shire might be able to give more information; and though she was not very sanguine in expecting it, the application was a something to look forward to.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“And when do you think, sir, I may look forward to this pleasure? I must be at Woodston on Monday to attend the parish meeting, and shall probably be obliged to stay two or three days.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You have so much to look forward to that I barely know where to start.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
