How to Use stare out in a Sentence

stare out

verb
  • Her wispy blond hair filled my screen; her big blue eyes stared out at me.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Diesel and Wasabi staring out the window.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Sylvester stared out the side window, buds in his ears but head still now, expression blank.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • More guards stood on a nearby dock, staring out to Lake Kivu.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Cubs players slowly walked off the field while some on the bench stayed in place staring out onto the field.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • On this boat ride, the researchers aren’t staring out across the opaque water, hoping for a flash of gray.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Regina stared out the window without answering, deep in thought.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Alfonso’s nun in her Balenciaga stared out at me dolled up in mine.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The star of this secret garden riad is the central courtyard, where the resident cat stares out chirping birds in the banana trees.
    — Lauren Burvill, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
  • As a teenager in Alaska, Jewel stared out over the ocean, fighting depression.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • To stare out the window at the landscape below was to watch the last of the boreal forest fade and then seem to vanish underwater.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The dog owner who posts under the username @dean_is_concerned shared an image of Dean the pup staring out the window, disgruntled.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • As Luke walks off, his shirt undone and his furry belly prickling in the desert cold, Danny turns and stares out into the backyard.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Then, the camera pans to show Matilda in the cat bed staring out the sunny window, before bouncing between the two animals.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Passengers could only stare out the windows as about a dozen hooligans jumped atop the bus while others sprayed it with graffiti, including on the bus' windshield.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In one panel, children maimed or exhausted by labor stare out bleakly; in another, unemployed men in a small industrial town sit or stand around.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • As Glinda and Elphaba stare out into different uncertain futures, the scene shifts to a flashback of their younger selves.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Despite the alarming find, her dog appeared completely unbothered, happily sitting in the car, staring out the window with her tongue hanging out.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Someone else, apparently at the same residence, looked at a security camera and saw the second person outside staring out at their backyard.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • The peacocks continue to screech in the distance, while Charli leans on the railing and stares out intently at the Los Angeles skyline.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • In the private ward in the maternity wing, everything is quiet, all the surfaces immaculate and clean as if nothing at all has happened, your mother still hazy with the blur of oxytocin and carbetocin, staring out the open window.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • For four years, Lockport residents Ray and Shelly Romolt have stared out their window at an empty lot, waiting for the day developers would transform it into a home for new neighbors.
    — Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
  • Here, the four presidents stare out over a section of a 118-acre (48-hectare) theme park, where iconic structures from across the world sit alongside each other, frozen in time as a rapidly growing tech metropolis rises around it.
    — New Atlas, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For four years, Lockport, Illinois, residents Ray and Shelly Romolt have stared out their window at an empty lot, waiting for the day developers would transform it into a home for new neighbors.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
  • Father and son, both members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, stare out at a sea of green grass and buffalo berry bushes as a herd of 30 or so bison munch patches of grass, flick their tails at flies, and flop onto the ground, creating brief billows of dust.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Higher categories are located on the upper floors, while the top-end rooms and suites stare out across Victoria Harbour towards the instantly recognizable Hong Kong Island skyline.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026

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