Sentence examples for supposed to stare from inspiring English sources

One reason may be the knowledge that we're not supposed to stare (though we all do anyway).

(Are you supposed to stare at the soup-can paintings, or are you just supposed to laugh? Which would be the wrong reaction?) Edward looked at his red beard in the tableknife.

About halfway through, it occurred to me that perhaps I was supposed to stare at the water -- this was color therapy, after all -- so I spent the final quarter-hour gazing into the vivid, bubbling liquid.

You know you're not supposed to stare at people with disabilities.

A statue of the mariner stands in the harbour of the nearby town of Watchet, marking the place where Coleridge is supposed to have stared out across the sea, imagining the plot of his poem.

During the first few weeks, when the freshman boys who lived on my hall found out that my homework involved watching porn, they giggled a lot and asked me, "So, wait, what are you supposed to be learning?" I stared at them blankly and shrugged, universal teenager for "I don't really have the tools to talk about this".

Thinking like, Oh shit, I was supposed to be in school!" Williams had never stared down the barrel of a gun before.

He had to stare straight ahead, because you were not supposed to move your eyeballs, and he had a bad case of swiveling eyeballs ("I was curious about things").

I probably was supposed to put my own slant on it, but I stared at a blank screen for a while and then left Verizon Center.

I knew better than to stare and yet, where else am I supposed to look during a movie?

Yukari Sato sat in her quiet campaign office and stared at the one-eyed doll that was supposed to bring her luck.