look right through
Example Sentences
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"Whichever way you look at them, they are a brilliant team and you struggle to find any weakness. You look right through the pitch and think 'where is the weakness?'"
From BBC • May 6, 2026
He was the guy with the piercing eyes that could look right through you, that lived in Russia, and they called him the Sharpshooter at that time.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
“They’d look right through you when you tried to talk to them,” Dr. O’Connor said.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018
Also, a fruit fly’s brain is transparent enough to look right through it under the microscope, so that one can watch neural processing while the fly is alive.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2014
Our eyes met, but he seemed to look right through me.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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