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Recent Examples of leer
Noun
The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024 Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Verb
Like something straight out of a horror movie, the leering figure looks ready to pounce.—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of limp, blonde hair.—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leer
Viewers on TikTok were able to see the young golden retriever walking slowly away from the group, only to pause and look back, his gaze lingering on his former companions.
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Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
Dressing for the female gaze is about reclaiming how women approach style.
Developers hope to include a restaurant in the new commercial space and are eyeing the House of Hits building, which collapsed in 2021, for a music entertainment venue.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
20 Mar. 2025
Nations across the globe are eyeing the success of their neighbors in medical tourism and want in.
Jacob-Jenkins has penned Naz as an asexual introvert, the kind of young man who finds solace in nature and lakes and everything that takes him far away from either his father’s infidelity or the glare of political attention.
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Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
Overhangs and sun-shading louvers outside of the kitchen and family room control glare without blocking the views to Lake Michigan below.
Elsewhere, shadow gapes invite light to flow through the property (another reference to the island’s volcanic origins).
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Christopher Cameron,
Robb Report,
27 Jan. 2025
Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.
This time around, interest in some of the Grammy-winning outfit’s most familiar tunes has clearly soared, as is evidenced by a quick glance at the weekly rankings of the most popular tunes throughout the nation.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
At first glance, the objects resemble dolls or even more advanced action figures with movable parts.
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