How to Use leer in a Sentence

leer

verb
Definition of leernext
Synonyms for leernext
  • He gave her a leering look.
  • She complained that some disgusting man was leering at her.
  • Male fans have been given plenty to leer at over the years.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Best, the camera can’t stop leering at Michael’s butt, and who can’t?
    — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2017
  • A chance to leer at the Bunnies wasn’t the only attraction.
    — Verena Dobnik, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Severed heads leered from stakes at people waiting in line to get through.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • Male passersby leer at female guests roaming the streets around the hotel.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • My eyes dart to John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Cole leered into the plate seconds after the call, not flinching from the finish of his follow-through.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • Watch some actual Old School TV in which the leering boss is not a figure to be admired.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Clearly, the guys at Pixar thought an old man leering at two young women was funny.
    — Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • For the last seven decades, Wahoo’s leering grin has stared out at fans from the caps, jerseys and shirts of both the Indians and their fans.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The dim room is packed with scores of leering rabbits; some figures date to the 1930s, when creepy expressions appeared to be in vogue.
    — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Sean was muscled, but not from the gym, and there was a defiant, leering gap in his grin, where one of his front teeth was missing.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • In 17 years as a hotel housekeeper, Dar has been propositioned and pursued, and leered at by guests too many times to count.
    — Fortune, 14 Dec. 2017
  • There’s no shortage of leering skulls; most are memento mori, but one is a parlor trick.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Take Pizzagate, and then add concocted footage of John Podesta leering at a child, or worse.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
  • We’re welcomed by the Emcee (Jon Peterson), whose leering naughtiness is matched by the dancers around him.
    — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • Respect for their friend finally overwhelms their hormones, and the boys stop leering.
    — Anthony Breznican, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2017
  • Chalk that up to a script that would rather leer at our current social predicaments than engage with them critically (i.e. in the way of all worthy satire).
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Scar, weighed down by lifelike musculature, can no longer leer.
    — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • Later that morning, while lying in bed, Mandy receives a text message: a video of herself passed out on a bathroom floor, a group of boys leering above.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 26 July 2019
  • The townies get understandably sick of the leering hordes; some are resigned to the glut and the spectacle, while others are less forgiving.
    — Chris Vognar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • In another, a widow fends off a leering priest by tricking him into sleeping with her maid.
    — Kathryn McKinley, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2020
  • And if those legs were only employed for seductive purposes, the camera might seem to be leering.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 13 Mar. 2017
  • These details aren’t offered up as shocking twists, nailbiters dispensed to a public eager to leer and consume them.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • What no one foresaw was that when the Mavericks journeyed here for this third game of a four-game trip that the season’s Grim Reaper would leer over their collective shoulder the entire stay.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And sometimes, amid all that love, lust, and leering in ride-sharing, there are just decent people, looking out for one another.
    — Jason Laughlin & Samantha Melamed, kansascity, 9 Aug. 2017
  • In it, the camera lingers a bit too long on Curtis’s gyrations, leering at her hip thrusts like an interloper in a locker room.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 30 June 2017
  • Instead of being leered at, women are simply ignored, not attended to at all.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023

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