Example Sentences

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Meantime, holiday travelers will stare down an average nationwide gasoline price of $4.08 a gallon, and pay airfares that have skyrocketed with energy costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“At Netflix, you pitch them an ambitious idea, they will stare you in the eye and ask how, together, can we make this even bigger?”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

The learnings will stare England in the face from four years ago, when they felt they got selection wrong.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

In this method, Roman will stare at many stars simultaneously, looking for instances where, by chance, a planet-bearing star will be perfectly aligned to cross in front of another “background” star much farther away.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023

How the English will stare at him with his deerskin breechcloth and bare chest!

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone