phrasal verb (intransitive/separable) · neutral

look up from

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to raise one's eyes or attention from something one is doing

Examples

She looked up from her phone when someone called her name.

If students never look up from screens, classroom interaction suffers.

During the lecture he rarely looked up from his notes, so he missed the question.

Band 8 sentence

He looked up from his laptop only to notice that the room had emptied entirely.

Collocations

  • look up from your phone
  • look up from work

Word family

look up phrasal verb (related)

Common mistakes

use "look up" alone to mean 'ngẩng lên'use "look up from" to specify what you lift your eyes from

Say it for a higher band

5raise your head6look up7+look up from

Synonyms

raise one's eyes

glance up

Easily confused

look up

She looked up from her book and smiled.

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