stared; staring
1
: to look fixedly often with wide-open eyes
2
: to show oneself conspicuously
the error stared from the page
3
starer
noun
Examples of stare in a Sentence
Verb
She stared out the window.
His mother told him not to stare.
Noun
They looked at me with accusing stares.
caught the child's wide-eyed stare on film
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Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Sean Monahan, Voronkov and others came up empty on point-blank opportunities that left them staring into the rafters or yelling at the ice in frustration.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
But each are given King-sized personalities, such as a newbie Black family that gets constant stares from neighbors — a by-the-book airman Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo ), his activist, take-charge wife Charlotte (Taylour Paige) and their science-loving son Will (Blake Cameron James).
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Behind the glass doors of an unassuming building in Manhattan, staring across a shuttered print shop, a shadowy world stirred, coming alive with the flick of cards, the muted clink of glasses and the quiet hum of a dangerous secret.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Sean Monahan, Voronkov and others came up empty on point-blank opportunities that left them staring into the rafters or yelling at the ice in frustration.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
Scherzer has a rare but harmless genetic eye condition where one eye is brown and the other is blue, and his stare can pierce you.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
But each are given King-sized personalities, such as a newbie Black family that gets constant stares from neighbors — a by-the-book airman Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo ), his activist, take-charge wife Charlotte (Taylour Paige) and their science-loving son Will (Blake Cameron James).
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Stare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stare. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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stare
1 of 2 verb
ˈsta(ə)r 
ˈste(ə)r
stared; staring
: to look hard and long often with wide-open eyes
stare at a stranger
starer
noun
stare
2 of 2 noun
: the act or an instance of staring
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