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
Scientists have gazed thousands of light-years in search of another such place, and still, this is the only one for sure, a beautiful lifeboat in an oceanic emptiness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
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
As, sometimes, when we have gazed at the sun, all grows black before us, even in full daylight, so now with Wally in the midst of her happiness, all suddenly grew dark to her soul.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Wilhelmine von Hillern
