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How to pronounce looking in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sounding


left their clothes dirty looking.
a most disagreeable looking character.
angry-looking.
liquid-looking.
severe-looking policemen on noble horses.
Type Words
Synonyms look, looking at
Type of perception, sensing
Has types evil eye, glimpse, view, watching, glance, lookout, observance, observation, outlook, peek, peep, coup d'oeil, rubber-necking, scrutiny, dekko, sight, sightseeing, squint, stare, survey


he gave it a good looking at.
his camera does his looking for him.
Type Words
Synonyms looking for
Type of hunt, hunting, search

Examples of looking

looking
This quirky cultural trait might be worth looking into and trying to understand.
From the stltoday.com
The IRS will be looking carefully, too, at hobby expense versus a real business.
From the newsday.com
Jerry Manuel said he is not looking to get Feliciano playing time at this point.
From the newsday.com
The numbers suggest that the drop comes from workers'giving up looking for jobs.
From the orlandosentinel.com
My family already had many green habits, but we're always looking to learn more.
From the orlandosentinel.com
By 2007, Kalt missed the startup atmosphere and was looking for a new challenge.
From the bloomberg.com
If he hadn't said that, we might have veered off into looking for new customers.
From the businessweek.com
Investigators are looking into whether he was asleep or distracted at the wheel.
From the thenewstribune.com
Most recently he has done work looking at odor signatures from forensic samples.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Expression: the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"
  • Perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
  • The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"
  • Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"
  • Have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"
  • Physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place"
  • Look, established in Nevers, France in 1951, was originally a ski equipment manufacturer. The company produced bindings under its own name and others such as Rossignol and Dynastar. ...
  • Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. ...
  • Look is a 2005 album by Beth Nielsen Chapman. It reached number 63 in the UK Albums Chart.