Example sentences for: stare

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

  • Not surprisingly, Scalia is no big fan of stare decisis : In his dissents, he often calls upon the court to scour away layers of encrusted precedent in order to get at the original meaning of the underlying text.

  • You can stare at Cruise's mask as he takes in the orgy and swear you see the wheels turning in his head.

  • The NYT front-page pic of Clinton touching Yitzhak Rabin's headstone reveals the president's thousand-yard stare, and the LAT reports that Clinton looked fatigued and that by the end of his day in Israel "his eyes had narrowed to slits."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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