look away

Example Sentences

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Her relationship with the camera remains unparalleled — when she is in frame, it is almost impossible to look away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

"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

The TV Dinner was an early, if unintended, step toward our current world in which unblinking people can’t look away from the screens they carry everywhere, oblivious to what is going on around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

But the answer to a risk you can’t see clearly is not to look away.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

I just give her a slight nod, then look away and bite my lower lip to keep from imploding.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold