Sentence examples for looker from inspiring English sources

Inverdale said then that Bartoli was "never going to be a looker".

"I just wonder if her dad did say to her when she was 12, 13, 14: 'Listen, you're never going to be a looker, you are never going to be somebody like a Sharapova, you're never going to be 5ft 11, you're never going to be somebody with long legs, so you have to compensate for that,'" he said.

BG It's in the arse end of Terry & June-ville, it's not much of a looker – gaudy black lacquer and frilly gold upholstery – but this seemingly bog-standard suburban Chinese serves dim sum to rival more lauded joints up west.

She tells them about the encroachment of measures against Jews, as backdrop to her parents' romance; of her mother being a film-lover "comfortable with the fact that she was a good looker", and shows a picture of the newlyweds smiling, wearing their yellow stars with "no idea what that would mean for them in the future".

In a joint interview with the Radio Times, Inverdale and Bartoli addressed his comments on Radio 5 Live ahead of last year's Wimbledon final, in which he said the player, who has now retired, was "never going to be a looker" and so had to compensate in other ways.

It was no looker, to be sure.

He was living in a volcanic field on Santa Cruz island 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, where you couldn't find a decent bagel if you tried: in fact, a place a lot like Washington.Besides, he was no looker.

When painting or reflecting on painting, he is above all a looker.

The rather upright stance of the car, which is no great looker, may be partly a concession to Mr Tata's stature.

Lippershey applied to the States General of the Netherlands for a 30-year patent for his instrument, which he called a kijker ("looker"), or else an annual pension, in exchange for which he offered not to sell telescopes to foreign kings.

Not only was he clever, he was a good-looker, always an asset for a leader.