How to Use look down in a Sentence

look down

verb
  • Ritu looked down and didn’t speak.
    — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • How can anyone look down on them?
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The man looked down at his own hands, which felt heavy and coarse.
    — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • Hope takes a paper and pen and looks down.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Helen looks down, chin to her chest.
    — Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Radha looked down at her lager.
    — Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Regina looked down at her swollen, red hands.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Startled, the boy looked down at his new fans.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • So look down at your Nikes, coach, and just do it.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2025
  • So, the world looks up at you in that spot, and the world looks down on you.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • A’ja Wilson looks down at her feet and winces.
    — Emma Carmichael, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Phillips looked down at her phone, then across the way at her friends, then back to her phone.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Perched on that tightrope, Glasnow would not look down.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Twin looked down the avenue to make sure no one was coming.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In the gallery was my father looking down.
    — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Keeping your body language calm, look down or away from the dog.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • The actor slumped and looked down after the guilty charges were read.
    — Wesley Parnell, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Ben looked stricken, paused for a moment and then looked down at me.
    — Sally Quinn, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • For the kids who don’t follow this path, they are looked down upon.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • The question is whether consumers look down.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Use a flashlight to look down into the drain to see what caused the clog.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 21 May 2026
  • People looked down on blues players, but the blues was these men’s church.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Lotte looks down at drips of drool on the green rubber mat that covers her desk.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Suggs looked down to see that his arm had been gashed open and was dripping blood.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • At one point, her only response to his bon mots was to look down at his footwear.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Vedrines looks down between his feet and sees the rock wall go down for thousands of feet.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the middle of the three-and-a-half-minute ride, our guide said to look down at our feet.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Avid cyclists tend to look down their noses at e-bikes, but that’s starting to change.
    — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Abrihet looks down at her forearms, which are criss-crossed with the scars of self-harm.
    — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This is looked down on by my siblings, who have a very narrow worldview.
    — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023

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