How to Use looking glass in a Sentence

looking glass

noun
  • Opt for a hue that gives your guests the chance to see the night through your looking glass—en rose.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • For many, the start of the pandemic was like going through the looking glass.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The third and final episode takes us completely through the looking glass.
    — PCMAG, 20 June 2024
  • Its tall frame stood out as an elegant looking glass with a distinctive curve.
    — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
  • To see what that side of the looking glass looks like for someone, just because that was the start of watch parties.
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 May 2024
  • What happens is unnerving, at which point the film passes through a looking glass of fear.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The skipping between both sides of the looking glass will soon become porous.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The experience was a strange one, like going down a looking glass.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This film feels like a ‘through the looking glass’ moment for Batman himself.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Gutfeld, though, is not just Seth Meyers through the looking glass.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • Everett sends Mark Twain’s classic through the looking glass.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • To rewatch any of these movies, or re-read the discourse that sprang up around them, is to peer through a shattered looking glass.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • His brain was always challenging me to keep looking from the other side of the looking glass.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Has Clark gone through a looking glass that’s going to lead him to a deliverance?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • Most will prefer to gaze at the surface but there will be people like me who enjoy what lies behind the looking glass.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Most will prefer to gaze at the surface but there will be people like me who enjoy what lies behind the looking glass.
    — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • To give Alice a look of wonder through the looking glass and beyond, start with bright pink blush on the apple of her cheeks.
    — Shelley Wolson, Woman's Day, 11 Aug. 2016
  • The comedian’s new Max show peers through the looking glass at the emptiness of modern life.
    — James Factora, Them, 3 July 2024
  • Meng brings the unique perspective of a former insider who has walked through the looking glass and emerged with her views transformed.
    — John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Once again the technology industry—and the world—finds itself on the other side of the looking glass.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 May 2018
  • By barely making it home in time and losing what appeared to be an expensive-looking glass slipper in the process.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • And most importantly, if the skies are clear, every program includes the romance of putting your eye up to the looking glass.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2022
  • As Tate’s looking glass indicates, not all the works are in the breaking-news category.
    — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The narrative of the book is about moving into different spaces – through the looking glass to down the rabbit hole.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The looking glass included stock-still reflections of trees on the opposite shore and mottled clouds overhead.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The barber was moving around his head like a big bee, sometimes with scissors, sometimes with little tiny brushes, sometimes with a looking glass.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • His initial encounter with the manhole that will transport him is glancing, childlike, like Alice with her looking glass.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
  • Through the looking glass Broussard’s goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way.
    — NBC News, 30 June 2019
  • That’s the sort of spontaneous talking point among friends and family that the museum encourages through this looking glass back to our childhoods.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
  • With a luxe-looking glass bottle and the performance of a much more expensive product, this serum feels worth the cost at full-price—and shoppers say a little goes a long way.
    — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026

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