How to Use leer in a Sentence

leer

1 of 2 verb

• He gave her a leering look.
• She complained that some disgusting man was leering at her.
• Male fans have been given plenty to leer at over the years.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Best, the camera can’t stop leering at Michael’s butt, and who can’t?
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
• A chance to leer at the Bunnies wasn’t the only attraction.
  — Verena Dobnik, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2017
• Severed heads leered from stakes at people waiting in line to get through.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
• Male passersby leer at female guests roaming the streets around the hotel.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• My eyes dart to John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• Cole leered into the plate seconds after the call, not flinching from the finish of his follow-through.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• Watch some actual Old School TV in which the leering boss is not a figure to be admired.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
• Clearly, the guys at Pixar thought an old man leering at two young women was funny.
  — Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• For the last seven decades, Wahoo’s leering grin has stared out at fans from the caps, jerseys and shirts of both the Indians and their fans.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• The dim room is packed with scores of leering rabbits; some figures date to the 1930s, when creepy expressions appeared to be in vogue.
  — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Sean was muscled, but not from the gym, and there was a defiant, leering gap in his grin, where one of his front teeth was missing.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• In 17 years as a hotel housekeeper, Dar has been propositioned and pursued, and leered at by guests too many times to count.
  — Fortune, 14 Dec. 2017
• There’s no shortage of leering skulls; most are memento mori, but one is a parlor trick.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Take Pizzagate, and then add concocted footage of John Podesta leering at a child, or worse.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
• We’re welcomed by the Emcee (Jon Peterson), whose leering naughtiness is matched by the dancers around him.
  — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• Respect for their friend finally overwhelms their hormones, and the boys stop leering.
  — Anthony Breznican, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2017
• Chalk that up to a script that would rather leer at our current social predicaments than engage with them critically (i.e. in the way of all worthy satire).
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
• Scar, weighed down by lifelike musculature, can no longer leer.
  — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• Later that morning, while lying in bed, Mandy receives a text message: a video of herself passed out on a bathroom floor, a group of boys leering above.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 26 July 2019
• The townies get understandably sick of the leering hordes; some are resigned to the glut and the spectacle, while others are less forgiving.
  — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• In another, a widow fends off a leering priest by tricking him into sleeping with her maid.
  — Kathryn McKinley, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2020
• And if those legs were only employed for seductive purposes, the camera might seem to be leering.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 13 Mar. 2017
• These details aren’t offered up as shocking twists, nailbiters dispensed to a public eager to leer and consume them.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
• What no one foresaw was that when the Mavericks journeyed here for this third game of a four-game trip that the season’s Grim Reaper would leer over their collective shoulder the entire stay.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• And sometimes, amid all that love, lust, and leering in ride-sharing, there are just decent people, looking out for one another.
  — Jason Laughlin & Samantha Melamed, kansascity, 9 Aug. 2017
• In it, the camera lingers a bit too long on Curtis’s gyrations, leering at her hip thrusts like an interloper in a locker room.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 30 June 2017
• Instead of being leered at, women are simply ignored, not attended to at all.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023

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leer

2 of 2 noun

• Aside from a brief flash of bared bum in the final scene, there is no full nudity here, and the show looks at its characters not with a leer but a rueful smile of compassion.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Still, freedom often meant pumping, grudgingly, in odd places, while women who chose to nurse endured tsk-tsks or leers.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2018
• In quarantine, without the leer of strangers on the sidewalk, could fabulousness occur?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• Sure there’s the conflict between the wealthy Monterey, California, moms the show illustrates with an uneasy leer.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 16 Feb. 2017
• Sure, some people might look at him a little funny for walking down the beach in a speedo in ten-inch heels, but compared to the adversity he's overcome in his life, Loresca is hardly bothered by the leers of strangers.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 23 June 2017
• Marilyn Monroe’s rear is getting some leers in Connecticut.
  — Dave Collins, Courant Community, 8 June 2018
• Most of Apple’s sketches are executed with a leer, suggesting distance.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• For someone who spoke in a language so uniquely his and Donald’s, their particular mechanized hum of a lyrical leer remains impenetrable.
  — Kelly Dwyer, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• Each feral snort and supercilious leer, each vaulted syllable of his chewy mitteleuropäisch accent, and each tremor of his predatory gestures plays to the intense concentration of Merhige’s pressing close-ups.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• Aside from a brief flash of bared bum in the final scene, there is no full nudity here, and the show looks at its characters not with a leer but a rueful smile of compassion.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Still, freedom often meant pumping, grudgingly, in odd places, while women who chose to nurse endured tsk-tsks or leers.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2018
• In quarantine, without the leer of strangers on the sidewalk, could fabulousness occur?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• Sure there’s the conflict between the wealthy Monterey, California, moms the show illustrates with an uneasy leer.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 16 Feb. 2017
• Sure, some people might look at him a little funny for walking down the beach in a speedo in ten-inch heels, but compared to the adversity he's overcome in his life, Loresca is hardly bothered by the leers of strangers.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 23 June 2017
• Marilyn Monroe’s rear is getting some leers in Connecticut.
  — Dave Collins, Courant Community, 8 June 2018
• Most of Apple’s sketches are executed with a leer, suggesting distance.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• For someone who spoke in a language so uniquely his and Donald’s, their particular mechanized hum of a lyrical leer remains impenetrable.
  — Kelly Dwyer, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• Each feral snort and supercilious leer, each vaulted syllable of his chewy mitteleuropäisch accent, and each tremor of his predatory gestures plays to the intense concentration of Merhige’s pressing close-ups.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024