Sentence examples for gazing at the ceiling from inspiring English sources

The other day, Ryan Smith and Joel Flewelling, of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, were standing on some bat bones in Aeolus, gazing at the ceiling.

But Riley was gazing at the ceiling again, gnawing on the nail of his left little finger, and might not have been listening.

— Aaron Maybin finds inspiration in conventional sources, like his two favorite books, "The Alchemist" and "The Secret," but also by gazing at the ceiling in his bedroom at his New Jersey apartment.

Breyer can look sleepy and disengaged when he isn't speaking — gazing at the ceiling through half-closed eyes, like a learned tortoise; he comes alive when he's unfurling one of his elaborate what-if scenarios.

One is lying fully dressed on a mattress in the corner, gazing at the ceiling like a lovesick pre-Raphaelite – Wallis's Chatterton just before the arsenic took hold, maybe.

"Whenever I come here, I see it for the first time," he says, taking off his baseball cap and gazing at the ceiling.

He pulled on his cigarette and gazed at the ceiling.

David rolled over and gazed at the ceiling.

The prime minister, much of the time, gazed at the ceiling as if scanning the horizon.

He closed one eye to gaze at the ceiling and beyond, calculating.

At the second acquittal he rocked on his heels and gazed at the ceiling of court three.