look through

phrasal verb

looked through; looking through; looks through

1

: to read or briefly examine some of the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.)

She was looking through a magazine as she waited in the doctor's office.

2

: to look at the different parts of (a collection or group of things)

I looked through all his letters.

3

: to place one's eyes so as to see through (something)

look through a telescope

4

: to pretend not to see or recognize (someone) in a rude or unfriendly way

We used to be best friends but when she passed me on the street yesterday she looked (right/straight) through me without even saying hello!

Examples of look through in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As Archie was looking through his dad's belongings, a car pulled up behind him, and a mystery woman — Perry's 90210 costar and longtime friend Doherty — stepped out with flowers to pay her respects. —Jordana Comiter, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025

When vacation brain sets in, visitors start looking through their camera lens instead of at the path in front of them. —Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025

To me, lenses here in Asia are also worth looking through to make sense of where Trump 2.0 might be taking America. —William Pesek, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

This was scanned in infrared light and with radar to simulate how a full-sized drone would look through a telescope from various angles and distances under conditions of less-than-perfect visibility. —David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for look through

• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup
• bijou