Example sentences for: stares

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

  • She stares doe-eyed into the camera, like the naked waif in Edvard Munch's Puberty , who seems just at that instant to realize her true vulnerability.

  • But the Independent noted "a whiff of rebellion" in the spontaneous singing by the entire parliament of Robert Burns' anti-royal ballad "A man's a man for a' that," which favorably compares the ordinary man with "Yon birkie ca'd 'a lord' /Wha struts an stares, an a' that."

  • When she sucks on her pipe and stares at the gun cabinet and upbraids her late husband for leaving her behind, Altman clearly wants her to take all the time in the world.

  • Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred "Beetle" Barnes, pauses, and calls him "Pat Buchanan."

  • Sometimes, as in the case of the 19-year-old protagonist of Lucy , a Kincaid heroine gets so fed up that she moves to the United States (as Kincaid did, at 17)--but there she only finds more fuel for her anger in the pitying stares of unconsciously racist white liberals.


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