stare
verb (used without object)
to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
starer
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a word derived from
stare.
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
In envy perhaps of the sturdy and glowing health of the starer, the lanky youth scowled back, and lowering his jaw pulled a grimace with an ease and repulsiveness that argued some practice.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
He would have asked the starer what the devil he was looking at, but Horace was incapable of incivility.
From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Richard Connell
The modern reader is a skimmer, a starer at pictures, like a child, while he reads, never thinking a whole thought, a lover of peeks and paragraphs, as a matter of course.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
