Sentence examples for looking important from inspiring English sources

Just weeks earlier, cormorants and gulls had perched on the tobacco-colored pilings of the harbor, looking important with their chests puffed out and wings stretched, drying in the sun.

Somebody like me, lucky to have a pass to the barn area, can stand around unobtrusively, trying to stay out of the way of the most important pedestrians, and observe the passing scene as night turns into dawn: Owners passed by, looking important.

Short and muscular, his ruddy face framed by mutton-chop sideburns, Robertson was the head golf professional at the Old Course in the early part of the 19th century, which meant that he arranged matches, gave instruction, made clubs and balls, supervised the links and generally walked around town looking important.

A boy of around eight stood looking important with a fire extinguisher and groups of men gathered jovially.

I'm traveling light on this trip -- no iPod, no headphones -- but what's a flight to Washington without looking important?

It's just made up to impress you by looking important.

It did not look important.

Is how you look important for your work?

He said hats make a man look important.

O.K., I admit that it doesn't look important, especially to Americans.

Who better to stand around and look important than England's finest actors?