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eying

verb as in gaze at, scrutinize

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Example Sentences

They crowded around him, eying him from head to foot, with great curiosity.

At this point Harry entered and stood afar off, eying Punch, a disheveled heap in the corner of the room, with disgust.

All the wrong wrought was his, and yet he sat there, calmly eying me, as though he were a righteous judge and I the culprit.

An old woman, after eying me a long time, said to me: 'You seem to be the right kind of a girl.

Lawton was already in the saddle, eying the opposite extremity of the valley with the eagerness of expectation.

Gardener Jim, going home from his work, came up to the fence and leaned on it, eying the garden critically.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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