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How to pronounce stare in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms gaze
Type of look
Has types stargaze, outface, outstare, stare down
Derivation starer


The students stared at the teacher with amazement.
Type Words
Type of looking, looking at, look
Has types glare, glower, regard, contemplation, gape, gaze
Type Words
Type of look
Has types glower, glare
Derivation starer

Examples of stare

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If you stare into the distance you could swear, absolutely swear, you see water.
From the sfgate.com
Tour-bus groups have changed their routes to stop at the high school, and stare.
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I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue.
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My husband responded to my question with a blank stare, and you can't blame him.
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I stare at the black line at the bottom of the pool and just enjoy the movement.
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Ask about parking mandates or FAR limits or whatever and you draw a blank stare.
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She would sit and stare through people around her as though they were not there.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The man's blank stare and stretched mouth convey his pain with palpable realism.
From the washingtontimes.com
Here is Irizarry, hair parted down the middle, sober stare into the camera lens.
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More examples
  • A fixed look with eyes open wide
  • Gaze: look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
  • Fixate one's eyes; "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"
  • (staring) agaze: (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; "staring eyes"
  • (staring) arrant(a): without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing ...
  • Staru00E9 is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.
  • Stare were an early 1990s four-piece indie band from Norfolk, England. Members of the band were Michael Brown, Karl Goodbody, Richard Hammerton and Derek O'Sullivan.
  • Staring is a prolonged gaze or fixed look. In staring, one object or person is the continual focus of visual interest, for an amount of time. Staring can be interpreted as being either hostile, or the result of intense concentration or affection. ...
  • A persistent gaze; To look fixedly (at something)