look up to
Example Sentences
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“My mother always said Barbara was someone to look up to, to emulate.”
Natalie started to fall with it, but a hand grabbed hers, and she looked up to see the young Black woman with the orange hair, bent over the railing to catch her.
From Literature
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“For my entire life, I have looked up to America, and had excellent cooperation with America,” said Per Stig Møller, who was foreign minister when Denmark deployed troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
“This category is stacked. I look up to all of you.”
“This category is stacked. I look up to all of you,” Chalamet addressed his competitors onstage.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.