Example sentences for: gazing

How can you use “gazing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They endure lengthy lines to be able to travel to the top, gazing out at the city and down into the Bundestag chamber.

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • Most critics report mixed reactions: "[T]his handsome, airtight meditation on art, celebrity, love, and rampant repertory-group horniness indulges in a lot of very American navel gazing" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Janet Maslin gives the film its most upbeat review, calling it an "enormously fond homage to the world of acting, beguilingly presented and filled with knowing backstage humor" (the New York Times ). Two stars get special note for their performances: Christopher Walken as a flamboyantly foppish critic and Susan Sarandon as an aging but still dynamite diva.

  • The recently installed grouping of sea fantasy sculptures by Mexican master Alejandro Colunga regularly attracts a crowd — sitting on, climbing over, or simply gazing upon these whimsical works of art.

  • He was hoping to spend a few more months gazing at paintings and reading novels before lowering his sights, but now he has loyally abandoned art for life.


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