look out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.71 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be facing.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
Example Sentences
- "While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors."
- "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”"
- "From a peanut whistle to a cannon's roar/When Fibber runs to open that closet door/Look out! [clattering sounds]"
- "Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton."
- "Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak."
- "I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book."