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look out on

v. be oriented in a certain direction; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson" [syn: look out over, overlook, look across]

Usage examples of "look out on".

Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the world from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window.

She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world.

One could look out on to the great dark sky of death with emotion, as one had looked out of the class-room window as a child, and seen perfect freedom in the outside.

He saw Jehan go to a window at the farther end of the room, open it, and look out on the quay, where a thousand illumined windows glanced in the distance.