look about in English

stare around, look around intently

Use "look about" in a sentence

1. He had a haunted look about him.

2. There was a wild look about her .

3. They all have that look about them.

4. She had a worried look about her.

5. The photograph makes me look about 80!

6. 22 He had a haunted look about him.

7. He look about the room with boyish ease.

8. He still had a youthful look about him.

9. She has a pensive, almost sad look about her.

10. Try these trousers, they look about the right length.

11. The house had a squat, resilient look about it.

12. There's a look about him that telegraphed bad news.

13. It was now his turn to look about in perplexity.

14. You'd better look about carefully before making the final decision.

15. All around; on every side: Let's look About for help

16. There was a drawn and haggard look about his eyes.

17. Prospects for the weeks and months ahead look about as bleak.

18. We should look about carefully before deciding which house to buy.

19. There is an olde worlde look about the clothes for summer.

20. There was a look about him, as if he'd recently returned from the Front.

21. Now it was my turn to be silent, and to look about the room.

22. The interior of the car is all plastic and has a cheap look about it.

23. Whenever Chelsea's defence did look about to be breached, an eager blue shirt would arrive.

24. Seemed to make a mascot of him: maybe they liked that country look about him.

25. Only then did he stand with his back to the fireplace and look about the room.

26. The surface of the water had a slick, glassy look about it and Carey's cast disappeared with barely a splash.

27. If they feel that taxation is unfair, intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world.

28. He had grown another inch or two but he was still plump and rosy, with a solid contented look about him.

29. We have only to look about us to witness the extraordinary power that our understandings of Nature have helped us to obtain.

30. In fact, to the Russians... we look about the same as a few square feet of tin foil, pointed in the right direction. [ CHUCKLES ]

31. Cenotaph This stranger was about forty years old, wore light-blue spectacles, and had a near-sighted, study-worn look about him that speedily suggested the essayist of Cenotaphs.

32. Passive sensors detected Cardassian activity near the inner planets, but we lost contact with the scout. I am holding position near Prendel 5 'til things quite down a bit, then we'll sneak in an have a look about.

33. In this verse the original-language word for “be anxious” has the idea of having “to look over your shoulder in anticipation of an unknown threat” or “to look about as one does in a state of alarm.”