look on

to watch an event without getting involved.

• He just looked on with his arms folded.
• The others played, but Tom just looked on.
• He just looked on and didn't stop the quarrel.
• We were looking on as they quarreled.
• Dan savagely beat Linda while their son looked on.

to think about something or someone in a particular way.

• I look on her as my sister.
• We look on her as a loose woman.
• I look on her as my best friend.
• I looked on him as the boss.
• She looks on him as her master.
• I look on him as my best friend.
• I look on you as my best friend.
• They looked on me as their leader.
• Everyone looked on me as a leader.
• They looked on him as their leader.
• They looked on him as an authority.
• He looked on the plan as impossible.
• They looked on him as a great judge.
• They looked on him as a great scholar.
• He looked on the plan with great favor.
• They looked on the writer as first-rate.
• I look on watching TV as a waste of time.
• He looked on this role as his big chance.
• They looked on this success as most important.
• Carelessness was looked on as a serious defect.
• Everybody had looked on him as a good-for-nothing.
• Proficient in English, he is looked on as a good teacher.
• She is looked on as the leading authority on the subject.
• Modern man looks on money as a means to getting more money.
• Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment.
• I cannot look on anybody as a national hero with the exception of Shigeo Nagashima.
• She looked on his decision as a grave mistake.