look the other way
Example Sentences
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They stay silent, avoid attention and confrontation, and look the other way.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
That the clerics chose to look the other way and install Khamenei’s son suggests two things, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
People, basically out of fear, look the other way, trying to suppress things they see, and forget.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
Fans are questioning whether the official site had taken adequate steps to prevent this, or whether it chose to look the other way.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
“Odd collection of people. We’d see them in town now and again—the children, sometimes their minder-woman, too—buying milk and medicine and what-have-you. You’d say ‘good morning’ and they’d look the other way.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
