How to Use looking glass in a Sentence

looking glass

noun
  • To watch is to gaze through the Kremlin’s looking glass.
    Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Opt for a hue that gives your guests the chance to see the night through your looking glass—en rose.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Through the looking glass: Imagine your dog’s surprise when a school of fish swims past its nose.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • We Americans jumped through the looking glass in March.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Gutfeld, though, is not just Seth Meyers through the looking glass.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • To give Alice a look of wonder through the looking glass and beyond, start with bright pink blush on the apple of her cheeks.
    Shelley Wolson, Woman's Day, 11 Aug. 2016
  • To rewatch any of these movies, or re-read the discourse that sprang up around them, is to peer through a shattered looking glass.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • This film feels like a ‘through the looking glass’ moment for Batman himself.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The skipping between both sides of the looking glass will soon become porous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • His brain was always challenging me to keep looking from the other side of the looking glass.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The viewer enters a darkened space and peers into a looking glass.
    David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Once again the technology industry—and the world—finds itself on the other side of the looking glass.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 May 2018
  • Most will prefer to gaze at the surface but there will be people like me who enjoy what lies behind the looking glass.
    Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • And most importantly, if the skies are clear, every program includes the romance of putting your eye up to the looking glass.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Meng brings the unique perspective of a former insider who has walked through the looking glass and emerged with her views transformed.
    John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The narrative of the book is about moving into different spaces – through the looking glass to down the rabbit hole.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Its tall frame stood out as an elegant looking glass with a distinctive curve.
    Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2023
  • As Tate’s looking glass indicates, not all the works are in the breaking-news category.
    Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Through the looking glass Broussard’s goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way.
    NBC News, 30 June 2019
  • His initial encounter with the manhole that will transport him is glancing, childlike, like Alice with her looking glass.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
  • The looking glass included stock-still reflections of trees on the opposite shore and mottled clouds overhead.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
  • One of Insomniac's most magical experiences takes you through the looking glass with some of the biggest names in dance.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The barber was moving around his head like a big bee, sometimes with scissors, sometimes with little tiny brushes, sometimes with a looking glass.
    John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Compared to the hundreds of anti-government rallies that have gripped Hong Kong since June, the pro-China demonstration was like stepping through a looking glass.
    Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But if everything comes together, researchers—and life—may finally be able to enter a looking glass world.
    Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In addressing the rotted, White roots of internalized anti-Blackness, Morrison wipes the muck from the looking glass.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In the looking glass, get inspired by poses, styling and moods from old films or photographs to channel the sultry look of history's most enviable couples.
    Christian Oth, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The internet’s prizing of authenticity has gone through the looking glass.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • People have willingly gone through the looking glass — or, more accurately, the Black Mirror — in order to understand what this simulacrum of a pop star means.
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Her guardian angel’s wings finally do drop, celestial war begins, and Marisol goes through the looking glass into poverty and homelessness.
    cleveland, 11 Mar. 2020

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