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Definition of thousand-yard stare in English: thousand-yard starenoun A vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance, seen as characteristic of a war-weary or traumatized soldier. on every bench and wall sit silent hunched figures with thousand-yard stares Example sentencesExamples - Taylor's pretty gray now and has that thousand yard stare old cowboys get.
- He'd recognise, too, the look that crosses Moyes's face more and more often, a disarming thousand-yard stare last seen on Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
- Many had that thousand-yard stare I recognize so well in ranch people, a gaze fixed on the horizon, a look that mingles contemplation with meditation and wariness.
- The band photos tell the story: three grumpy young guys with lank scruffy hair and thousand-yard stares, all wearing regulation black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets.
- He was referring to the ashen-faced patrons with the thousand-yard stares who remained pinned to their seats, following a Sunday matinee showing of Synecdoche, New York
- In photography this is known as the thousand-yard stare, when a person has seen more than they can cope with and their mind has consequently shut down.
- He is sporting a Unabomber beard and a zonked-out thousand-yard stare.
- We maintained our thousand-yard stares into darkness.
- But Dakota Fanning does the best blue-eyed thousand-yard stare since Hannibal Lecter.
- Motorists under the influence of Kava had a "thousand-yard stare," Feasel said.
- Every band member displays disturbing thousand-yard stares.
- His vacant thousand yard stare said it all.
- Realizing the implications of what he is doing, he stops abruptly, and a haunted, thousand-yard stare crosses his face.
- He says he's a maintenance man, but I believe his hobby of amateur taxidermy is linked to his thousand-yard stare and a spate of animal disappearances around the neighbourhood.
- My face looked like one of those "thousand-yard stare" photos from Vietnam.
- Under fire, marines acquire the "thousand-yard stare," an ability to see beyond.
- Think of an edgier Daniel Radcliffe, all messy dark curls and a thousand-yard stare from behind wire-rimmed glasses.
- On every bench and wall sit silent, hunched figures with thousand-yard stares.
- The end feeling is that this is a guy who has been through the wringer, but he's still alive and he's learned that at the end of any thousand-yard stare there is the potential for the miraculous.
Definition of thousand-yard stare in US English: thousand-yard starenoun A vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance, seen as characteristic of a war-weary or traumatized soldier. Example sentencesExamples - He was referring to the ashen-faced patrons with the thousand-yard stares who remained pinned to their seats, following a Sunday matinee showing of Synecdoche, New York
- In photography this is known as the thousand-yard stare, when a person has seen more than they can cope with and their mind has consequently shut down.
- He says he's a maintenance man, but I believe his hobby of amateur taxidermy is linked to his thousand-yard stare and a spate of animal disappearances around the neighbourhood.
- Motorists under the influence of Kava had a "thousand-yard stare," Feasel said.
- Many had that thousand-yard stare I recognize so well in ranch people, a gaze fixed on the horizon, a look that mingles contemplation with meditation and wariness.
- Realizing the implications of what he is doing, he stops abruptly, and a haunted, thousand-yard stare crosses his face.
- On every bench and wall sit silent, hunched figures with thousand-yard stares.
- Think of an edgier Daniel Radcliffe, all messy dark curls and a thousand-yard stare from behind wire-rimmed glasses.
- He'd recognise, too, the look that crosses Moyes's face more and more often, a disarming thousand-yard stare last seen on Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
- His vacant thousand yard stare said it all.
- The band photos tell the story: three grumpy young guys with lank scruffy hair and thousand-yard stares, all wearing regulation black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets.
- Every band member displays disturbing thousand-yard stares.
- The end feeling is that this is a guy who has been through the wringer, but he's still alive and he's learned that at the end of any thousand-yard stare there is the potential for the miraculous.
- He is sporting a Unabomber beard and a zonked-out thousand-yard stare.
- My face looked like one of those "thousand-yard stare" photos from Vietnam.
- We maintained our thousand-yard stares into darkness.
- Under fire, marines acquire the "thousand-yard stare," an ability to see beyond.
- But Dakota Fanning does the best blue-eyed thousand-yard stare since Hannibal Lecter.
- Taylor's pretty gray now and has that thousand yard stare old cowboys get.
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