look around
verb- To inspect a building or area. · We're interested in buying this house. Can we look around tomorrow?
- To search a place. · I can't find my keys, so I'll look around.
- To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself. · He heard a voice and looked around to see a man wearing dark clothes.
- To take note of the situation; to make oneself aware.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, around.
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So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.
Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs.
So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.
Monte Cristo stopped after having closed the gate and fastened the string to the nail, and cast a look around.
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