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

Maybe you, too, have gazed upon a bunch of yellowed, wilted dill or parsley — a bundle you had every intention of using but that somehow started to decompose while you weren’t looking?

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 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

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

Much of the verdant forest land on which I have gazed with so much delight from the windows of the cars will soon cease to be land at all.

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan