Stare is an English word with synonyms like look or looking. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stare in a sentence
Related words
Stare meaning
- To look fixedly (at something).
- To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
- To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
Using Stare
- The main meaning on this page is: To look fixedly (at something). | To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
- Useful related words include: look, looking, looking at, gaze.
- In the example corpus, stare often appears in combinations such as: stare at, to stare, and stare.
Context around Stare
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stare
- In this selection, "stare" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, super, blank, inevitably, decisis, down and long stand out and add context to how "stare" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blank stare and a blank stare especially since. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stare" sits close to words such as barbados, bustling and carving, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stare
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her companions in misfortune stare into space. (7 words)
He always had the same expression, a blank stare. (9 words)
How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking? (10 words)
In French, Italian and Romanian, the derivative of stāre largely preserved an earlier meaning of "to stand/to stay", although in modern Italian, stare is used in a few constructions where English would use "to be", as in sto bene "I am well". (43 words)
Donning various impeccably crisp t-shirts, Walker bounces off this energy, as his gleeful, hooting reactions to stunts are a delight — plus, Walker delivers the infamous "stare and drive" sequence with all the dumb bravado it deserves. (37 words)
If I see a child without an adult in arms reach, I just stop and stare until I figure out who their adult is or talk with them until their adult comes if no one is around. (37 words)
How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Maybe we DID need this time to stare into the face of racism; maybe we needed to stare at our own selves.
Stare long enough into, say, the Browns, and the Browns inevitably stare back at you.
In French, Italian and Romanian, the derivative of stāre largely preserved an earlier meaning of "to stand/to stay", although in modern Italian, stare is used in a few constructions where English would use "to be", as in sto bene "I am well".
Super stare decisis Super-stare decisis is a term used for important precedent that is resistant or immune from being overturned, without regard to whether correctly decided in the first place.
The application of the doctrine of stare decisis from a superior court to an inferior court is sometimes called vertical stare decisis.
After all, ask the average person on the street if they know who Oscar Levant was and they will likely respond with a blank stare, especially since his popularity peaked in the forties and fifties.
As fans stare down the barrel of an leaning heavily on the returning presence of Huyang, it's clear that we're reaching self-parody levels of fan service.
But she has a personal reason, too: A chance to stare into the abyss.
Direct eye contact with a basilisk resulted in a quick death, although an indirect stare would only cause the victim to become petrified.
Donning various impeccably crisp t-shirts, Walker bounces off this energy, as his gleeful, hooting reactions to stunts are a delight — plus, Walker delivers the infamous "stare and drive" sequence with all the dumb bravado it deserves.
Dosunmu scored nine of his 17 points in the fourth quarter, turning to stare down the Nets bench after splashing a corner 3-pointer.
He always had the same expression, a blank stare.
Her companions in misfortune stare into space.
His two-homer performance, paired with his emphatic stare-downs at second base, sent a clear message – big players rise to the occasion.
How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking?
I don’t know, stare into a window, even from a distance, and if you’re common riff-raff, you might go to jail.
If I see a child without an adult in arms reach, I just stop and stare until I figure out who their adult is or talk with them until their adult comes if no one is around.
I get into bed and stare out of the window.
In one image, Weaving let her wavy blonde locks flow past her shoulders as she shot a serious stare while seated between friends Jordan Kirk and Aleks Trkulja.
I recorded one cattle egret video that I’m particularly smitten with along the Río Cañas when one individual gave the camera lens a long, hard stare.
Common combinations with stare
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stare at 57×
- to stare 36×
- and stare 18×
- stare into 13×
- stare down 13×
- blank stare 9×
- they stare 7×
- stare decisis 6×
- stare and 6×
- stare out 5×