How to Use look in on in a Sentence

look in on

verb
  • Hell, even Texas finds itself on the outside looking in on the top ten.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Rivers even began looking in on offensive meetings on Zoom just in case.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The plastic tiara looking in on the Oval Office was her donation.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • Ultimately, the Cowboys lost their last three games and found themselves on the outside looking in on the playoffs once more.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • As a result, the Cowboys find themselves on the outside looking in on the NFC playoff picture.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Chiefs have had many faults that have resulted in the team finding themselves on the outside looking in on the AFC playoff picture.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Our agenda includes promenading with the official mascots, catching some live musical vibes, and looking in on the Pharmalot ancestor.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 June 2026
  • The Chiefs, meanwhile, continue their up-and-down stretch, falling to 6-6 and sitting on the outside looking in on the AFC side of the bracket.
    — Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Like John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese, Jaglom knows how to push a scene into realms of such emotional nakedness that the viewer starts to feel like a voyeur looking in on relationships that are none of his or her business.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a league MVP, a four-time NBA champ who was the defensive player of the year in 2017, and a two-time scoring champ on the outside looking in on both top 25 lists.
    — Rob Peterson, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • In July, Extell revealed a pair of renderings for the supertall, one of which appears to put a new 84-story tower close enough to 520 Park that each building’s residents could reasonably look in on the other.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The game was a virtual must-win for the Chiefs (6-6) who are on the outside looking in on the NFL playoff picture and already have losses to multiple teams ahead of them, including the Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Nov. 2025

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