look away

Example Sentences

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"We had gone out for a really nice dinner and I'd been trying to look away from football for the evening," he told BBC Sport.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

As chief heat officer for the city of Los Angeles, it is Marta Segura’s job to make sure we don’t look away from the threat coming for us.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Today, many forces, corporate and technological, make it harder to look away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Pitchford asks whether either promise still has real force when the record is messy, the procedure rushed, and the law of review designed to look away.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

I look away, determined not to let her absence interfere with what I’m about to do.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam