gaze
verb (used without object)
to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
have gazed
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present perfectof gaze.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“If it had eyes, it would have gazed out at saber-toothed tigers and mastodons,” said Norman Ellsrand, distinguished professor of botany at UC Riverside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
“Self-assured, confident about a future without limitations, he must have gazed out at the wide-open spaces of the Mississippi Delta in amazement,” Till-Mobley wrote of her son in a 2003 memoir co-authored with Christopher Benson.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
For decades, scientists have gazed into ant farms in labs to test theories on animal behavior.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
This means that we have gone only a tiny fraction of the way around the Galaxy in all the time that humans have gazed into the sky.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
They have gazed at dozens of tragedy-queens dying on the stage and expiring in appropriate blank verse, and I never wanted to wipe them.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
