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Example sentences for: stare

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

--who poked him in the ribs whenever he was on camera; his goofy stare would flit from his trough of nachos to the playing field.
(If you really want to see the so-called "death stare," click .) The conceit, of course, is that careful scrutiny of these images may reveal something important about JFK's assassination.
She is an extremely discerning person who can detect the most subtle spice in a bowl of soup or a whisper of colored thread in a suit jacket, but for some reason she can stare at a basketball game on television and miss the important details, such as the ball going into the hoop.
(Or was Ford, he of the simmering stare and pained, narrow grin, ever really that great?
I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.