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.

  • While we stare with detached sociological attention at the garb of generations who lived in complex past times, we're invited to stare the same way at contemporary modes, to see them as the historical artifacts of our own fraught epoch.

  • Most of the current textual infidelity, though, occurs because the doctrine of stare decisis --which dictates adherence to precedent--forces today's judges to live with adventurous Supreme Court decisions from earlier in the century.

  • 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.

  • I would change water, snip stems, peel back bark, arrange flowers, arrange arrangements, and stare at them.


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