Verb (used without object) : The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to stare a person up and down. ,to stare one out of countenance. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : The banker greeted him with a glassy stare. From Dictionary.com.
When addressing a person, look in his or her face, not staringly, but frankly, never fixing your eyes on the carpet or your boots. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
It seems to me to be stark-staringly obvious that when some people own a lot and others own a little, there is NOT equality of opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [And the Libertarian shall lie down with the Left] Reference
Yet no one took less trouble to conceal his aversions than he; it is staringly obvious that, once among Persians, he simply found he liked them. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
He spoke staringly, with the same fixity in his voice and gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
His eyes were fixed staringly upon the impassable visage of the. From Wordnik.com. [Archibald Malmaison] Reference
In another way, she was so staringly wide awake as she had never before been in life. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
Isn't it stark-staringly obvious that cancer patients need to see a specialist p.d.q.?. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Burblings] Reference
That is, he was motionless, even lifeless, and yet staringly significant, like a picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball and the Cross] Reference
If those great windows were staringly bright, health and cheerfulness seemed to look in at them. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
For two hours together, she would sit in awful silence, with eyes strained staringly before her. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference
The universe, in relation to what any man can say of it, is plain, patent and staringly comprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
There, in the full glare of the light, the whole material and sordid side of death seemed staringly real. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
His staringly new Sam Browne irritated him, but he forgot it as the train swung round the curve to the landing-stage. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Called Peter] Reference
He saw her grow cold, her eyes fixed on him staringly, as though she not only heard his words but saw what was in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
The tenements are built with the same end in view, and all are staringly new, though vines may render some of the houses more pleasing, and. From Wordnik.com. [From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina] Reference
Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
When at length the erect, commanding figure of Rev.J. Jasper promenaded the aisle toward the pulpit, all eyes were staringly fixed upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising] Reference
They stared at her helplessly, though not kindly; for in their expressions the conflict between desire and policy was almost staringly vivid. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Julia] Reference
When, at length, the erect, commanding figure of Rev.J. Jasper promenaded the aisle toward the pulpit, all eyes were staringly fixed upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, with His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun] Reference
They were large, violet-hued, covered with a kind of veil or film, as though sleep had not wholly gone; and they were unseeingly, staringly set with horror. From Wordnik.com. [The U. P. Trail] Reference
Except for his head, which was staringly barred, he was dappled -- not striped, but dappled like a child's rocking-horse in rich shades of smoky black on red gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
Intellect is to a woman's nature what her watch-spring skirt is to her dress; it ought to underlie her silks and embroideries, but not to show itself too staringly on the outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
During the whole time of my stay, the plague was so master of the city, and showed himself so staringly in every street and alley, that I can't now affect to dissociate the two ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference
The only colour which starts out staringly is ultramarine, owing of course to this mineral material resisting time and change more perfectly than the pigments with which it is associated. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Then entering and seating himself on a chair, he took some minutes to recover speech, rolling his eyes staringly round the meagre, unluxurious room, and then concentrating their gaze upon its occupier. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
So was it with the people of the City, and they stood in the Hall and winked staringly at one another, shouting and dancing at intervals, capering with mad gravity, exclaiming on the greatness of that they had witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
And he produced a case bottle, staringly labelled PINKERTON'S THIRTEEN STAR GOLDEN STATE BRANDY, WARRANTED ENTIRE. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
Blank, staringly, simply could not believe it. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
During the whole time of my stay the plague was so master of the city, and showed itself so staringly in every street and every alley, that I can’t now affect to dissociate the two ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East] Reference
'But why wonder so staringly?. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
But I was staringly wide awake. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
That each at other look'd half staringly. From Wordnik.com. [Poems 1817] Reference
That each at other lookd half staringly. From Wordnik.com. [Calidore: A Fragment] Reference
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