Example sentences for: stares

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

  • 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."

  • He says his last words and then stares out at each of us, one by one, as the guards stuff a gag into his mouth.

  • 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.

  • Safire castigates the Department of Justice for being obtuse in the face of this evidence and urges the Senate to step up its investigative efforts to fill the void because "a widespread, criminal conspiracy to violate Federal election laws stares the nation in the face."

  • 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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