look after
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.63 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed."
- "My subject does not necessarily oblige me to look after this water, or point forth the place whereunto 'tis now retreated."
- "I have sent my intended husband to look after my lover […]."
- "If they are not married, they should be looking after a wife."
- "Sliding through the world: that is how, in a bygone age, they used to designate lives like his: looking after his interests, quietly prospering, attracting no attention."
- "He asked me to look after his daughter while he was away."