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peering
adjective as in curious
adjective as in inquisitive
adjective as in inquisitorial
adjective as in investigative
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Example Sentences
But peering more closely at the photograph, taken this August, his weary brown eyes reveal a darker truth.
They sit on tall chairs with bright red seats peering down into microscopes.
Peering over a notebook this time, I saw him as a character in a larger story about outlaws.
"Peering inside [these] sleek, circular contours reveals a whole lot of nothing," Steven Hyden recently wrote on Grantland.
The camera homes in on a young boy peering out the window, his face faintly visible through its steel security bars.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
They were walking down a corridor, and Miss Thangue was peering through her lorgnette at the cards on the doors.
He saw her dear face peering through the dimness at him, the eyes burning like two dark precious stones.
Peering through the window, over the flats, I saw a light gleaming steadily at the head of the village street.
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On this page you'll find 134 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peering, such as: inquisitive, interested, analytical, disquisitive, examining, and impertinent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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