Example Sentences

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One bartender, who asked not to be named, told the programme that Mr Watt was "a starer".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2022

And Bobby Adams just sits and stares at me with his mouth slightly open—but Bobby’s kind of a mouth-open starer on a good day, so I let it go.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Sir Wilton looked up quickly; for the habitual starer had been for once outstared.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

"I know he, was always a starer, and I say again I don't like him."

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

We were, for near an hour, quite easy, chatty, and comfortable; no pointed speech was made, and no starer entered.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny