How to Use look ahead in a Sentence

look ahead

phrasal verb
Definition of look aheadnext
  • Don’t look ahead, just look at what’s in front of us today.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • The player looked ahead that number of spaces on the map.
    — Matthew Wynn Sivils, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2024
  • These stunning looks ahead need to be talked about in detail.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The leather planner offers month and day-at-a-view pages for looking ahead.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Here are takeaways from the spring sales — and a periscope look ahead at the biggest trends emerging in the art market.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • The festival is the perfect farewell to summer, and a great way to look ahead to the spring planting season.
    — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In her acceptance video, Minaj looked ahead to her next big project.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2023
  • So grab a pen and paper and prepare to take notes on Beckham’s most notable looks ahead.
    — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • By this point in her career, looking back was safer than looking ahead.
    — Lily Ruth Hardman, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But back then, music was something of an afterthought for the rapper when asked to look ahead to the future.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Latham foregoed the team’s 24-hour rule of celebrating wins and looked ahead.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Lara has been stressing to his team to maintain its focus instead of looking ahead to a showdown against St. John Bosco on Oct. 25.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Ski season may be winding down, but the Ikon Pass is already looking ahead to next season with its lowest price and a host of new perks.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That’s hardly the reassurance that the Party craves looking ahead to 2024.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Even before the verdict had been delivered, Trump and his team were looking ahead to the next major judgment to be cast on him: the 2024 election.
    — Tessa Berenson Rogers, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The primaries are over, and Cincinnati-area voters can now look ahead to November's drama.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • As Paris looks ahead to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, organizers still have challenges ahead.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
  • While the first performance is this evening, MacKnight is already looking ahead.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Ben Affleck is looking ahead to what's next while hashing out his divorce with Jennifer Lopez.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The Biden campaign also was looking ahead to November’s vote.
    — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
  • Schultz is looking ahead to the next part of his career, which could look very similar to the previous part, just minus his mother.
    — Thomas Gounley, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Now, the venue will be filled with artists, dancers, acrobats and surprise performers to celebrate the end of this year’s Olympics and look ahead to the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
    — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • This latest segment of secondhand treasures pays tribute to just that, with a look ahead to spring dressing.
    — By Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 27 June 2024
  • With President Biden now out of the running, the Democratic Party is already looking ahead to what's next.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 24 July 2024
  • Now, with Prince William returning to royal engagements as the new school term begins, the princess is looking ahead at her diary for the coming months.
    — Harriet Johnston, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets and a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 June 2024
  • Amid signs of that Pacific warm current starting to build anew, climatologists looked ahead to next year as the time when all hell might break loose.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Building on the surging wave of support, All Classical Radio is looking ahead with big plans.
    — James Bash | , oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Each look ahead can speak to every way of luxuriating under the summer sun, and at every size.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024

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