Look around
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Definition
To explore a place casually; to walk around and see what is there
Example sentence
We spent the afternoon looking around the city.
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Common collocations
Natural word pairings to memorize.
Common pattern: look around + place • look around for + thing
- look around the house
- look around the store
- look around the city
- look around the neighborhood
- look around the room
- look around for a job
Separable usage
Can the object split the verb? Compare correct vs incorrect.
Tourists looked around the museum. ✅ (Correct)
Tourists looked the museum around.❌ (Incorrect)