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 -
To see what that side of the looking glass looks like for someone, just because that was the start of watch parties.
— Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 May 2024 -
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 -
Everett sends Mark Twain’s classic through the looking glass.
— Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024 -
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 -
The runaway greenhouse effect may play out here millions of years from now, making Venus the looking glass into Earth’s future.
— Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024 -
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
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