Example sentences for: stare

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

  • Ichabod Crane walks through small doorways into dark-toned rooms where pasty old men in white wigs stare at him balefully and whisper in one another's ears, their bloated waistcoats jiggling.

  • My standard response is to stare calmly and ask, "Why do you need to know?"

  • The path-breaking professionals tend to stare defiantly into the camera: Imagine telling Dorothy A. Richman, a rabbinical student wrapped in phylacteries and holding a Torah, that she can't serve God!

  • Bale, a wonderfully sensitive actor who here looks like Watson with an Adam's apple, can only stare open-mouthed, helpless, knowing she's his destiny and not even much minding that it will take him back to Metroland.

  • Lovesick Teen: A "photo analysis" page (part of a site called Cary's Crap) examines shots from the CNN tape of Lewinsky and Clinton's postelection hug, noting the "ecstasy look on Monica's face" as she and the president embrace--"Here Monica is obviously giving the President the 'Fuck Me' stare.


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