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Sentence Examples Sprague and Clauss were conferring quietly, while glancing nervously through the window. I nodded slowly, glancing back at the television which was thankfully showing commercials. In the village were only scared-looking women standing in small groups, glancing fearfully around. With an insincere apology, she shuffled off, furtively glancing over her shoulder to make sure no one had seen her colluding with a stranger. After a while, standing on tip-toes, she found herself glancing at the plasticized chart mounted before her. He turned, glancing back at me to make sure I was following, and went over to the fire escape. She was running at full speed, glancing behind every few seconds, before plunging ahead with even greater speed. Outside Mr. Shay was waiting patiently beside the carriage, glancing down toward his golden pocket watch. The striker floated a great ball into the box which was met by Keith Kelly whose glancing header levelled the game. The commander quickly moved on without glancing twice at the dead corpses, hoping that he would not join them in battle. I'm not glancing around for the next cottonmouth or even the clamping jaws of an irate alligator. I stopped and looked around me, glancing behind to make sure that my follower was lost somewhere out there in the wilderness. He flips open Olivia's datebook, glancing impatiently at the various entries until his eye falls upon today's date. She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn. She stopped at a stand selling jewelry and rare gemstones, glancing over its inventory. He was looking around anxiously, glancing up the stairs and towards the kitchen. My mother smiled wisely, glancing upward briefly before turning her gaze to me. She stood up cautiously, briefly glancing around to make sure that everything was as it should have been. I saw him frown and I watched, as it grew deeper when he glanced at me for a moment before glancing back down at the photo. I glanced at a kid that looked about my age who was glancing around nervously until he saw me looking at him and gave me a hard look. Show More Sentences I haven't read it, but glancing through it, there are some pretty objectionable statements. I walk out into the open, where Josh can see me clearly, with the moonlight glancing off my sleek fur coat. The sun sent rays glancing off their smooth surfaces, which cascaded colors throughout the beautiful city. He turned to his right and squinted, just barely catch the sunlight glancing off her night-black hair. The Chinooks are closest and I can see the moonlight glancing off their huge, drooping 30 ft rotor blades. Eventually he did get to three figures, glancing King to the fine-leg fence. At that moment the psychiatric patient suddenly lunged at the registrar and struck her two glancing blows. The result of my three shots was, one miss, one glancing blow but the third one was a heart shot! Take a flashlight and shine it at a glancing angle across the wall and the mold almost lights up. Through beautiful courtyards graced by classical statues and charming fountains that caught the glancing light from the full sun. Some of the people in the computer room were glancing at me like I was deranged. She tries to be careful, but she's fingering that thing every other minute and glancing over to make goo-goo eyes at Hawk. Of course there are many echt spams that I could recognize in an instant, without glancing beyond the subject line. William Gallas bent double to make contact with the ball but his glancing touch could direct it only on to the post. The men quickly scooped up the bills and stuffed them into their pockets, glancing nervously around to see if anyone was watching them. I fiddle with the stem of my wineglass, glancing around the restaurant at all the other happy couples. I tapped my mechanical pencil against my desk and sighed deeply, glancing at the clock from the corner of my eye. My brain was beginning to boil as I panicked, glancing around and finding no place to run. I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands. Even an glancing blow could cause new devastation to the already-stricken city. Show More Sentences She said the word like a cuss, glancing first at her partner and then at Fox. After glancing at his watch he flipped on the computer and tried to access some old files. Simon left, glancing one more time at his discarded cigar in Jim's wastebasket. After a few minutes of searching, I turned on the wind shield wipers, glancing into the rear view mirror, checking on Kate. I watched them wretchedly age, season after season, and no matter how bad my mood, I could always worsen it by glancing at them. Jac picked up a fork and poked at the greens, making a wry face and glancing with envy at her plate. Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together. Noah went home that night and looked through his old high school yearbooks, glancing through all the pictures. She shut her bedroom door with a click and lit her lime green lava lamp, glancing over at her clock to check the time. She let go of him and began climbing the ladder, glancing back now and then to make sure he was following. All of a sudden there was a loud ring and I jumped, glancing around the room I was in, thinking the cordless phone was not too far away. Glancing at Rick, Vivian arose and he stood chuckling and glancing at her mother in triumph. Monica shook her head, glancing at the coffee table on which five empty teacups and a half-full plate of cakes sat. I snarled and she took a step backwards, glancing at the naked blade in my hands. He scrolled down the list of his numerous messages, glancing over the titles. Her breathing was harsh and ragged as she stumbled through the brush, glancing back over her shoulder fearfully. The ogre was going to play dead and bluff it out, but then he saw a female pointing toward him and the rest glancing his way. Yes, thought Alicia, glancing at her twin and his beloved, America would be good for them. He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines. It would be quite easy for someone merely glancing over his pages to assume that this book is simply one more example of the mixture as before. Show More Sentences She followed Helena everywhere, but always kept glancing back to check on her momma, as though she were the worried parent. I watched him from the corner of my eye, as he occasionally looked sideward at me, before glancing back on the road. The journey was made more difficult by the fact that he kept glancing back in the rear view mirror to check that Emma was still following. He did manage to hit a tree a glancing blow on one jaunt, but had the car repaired before his father returned. Again she circled and again it struck, this time a glancing blow to her flank. He then takes another swinging punch at Josh but only lands a glancing blow. It swerved, but gave the first coach a glancing blow and ended up in the field. The car had only delivered a glancing blow, bruising only his hip as he turned away from the loud squealing tires. A stone smashed through an offside window of the vehicle, causing a glancing blow to a passenger. They swayed with the motion of the moving car, occasionally glancing around at the other passengers. The mathematician proudly gave his answer, glancing at me slyly out of the corner of his eye, as if he had outdone me in some way. Eric laughed nervously, glancing at the dangerously slopping pot of hot coffee. He pocketed the lighter and unlit cigarette, glancing over and seeing Masao and Akina. While I waited for him, slightly smugly, I found myself glancing once more at a notice board. She continued to read silently, her eyes glancing upwards to sneak a peek at Zach. She used Ryan's jacket to cover her numbing feet, and, glancing at his seating position, she gave a loud sniff. I think glancing along rows of neatly zipped trousers and tightly buttoned shirts in the tube carriage. His eyes are dead, as black as the depths of the sea, glancing at us as his halo of white-transparent hair swirls around his head. I straightened, stretched and yawned, glancing idly about me, a man awakening from a romantic reverie. Warner lunged, but Walters moved aside, catching Warner a glancing blow with a fist to the side of his head. Show More Sentences Peter swung around, and the flat of his knife caught her a glancing blow on the side of the head. Mr Haven, of Indianapolis, said the Titanic struck a glancing blow to the iceberg as it attempted to turn away. The boy entered the cottage slowly, glancing hesitantly around the main room. Me and Simone were in a corner of the stuffy room, warily glancing at all the models as if they were about to attack. He smiled at his wife before diving into the cool water, surfacing and glancing at Emily expectantly. By the time our desserts arrive, people are glancing surreptitiously at their watches. Lydia let a out a giggle before clapping her hand over her mouth, and glancing around to make sure no one had heard. At the same time, the card cheat is glancing furtively around to make sure no one is watching while he pulls an extra ace of clubs from his belt. Gary Neville's superb cross into the box found Scholes in space and his inch-perfect glancing header evaded Seaman's fingertips. Due to the glancing incidence of the ion beam, argon is not implanted into the sample surface. Often glancing at the magistrates, Dumas was a commanding presence with a flair for the dramatic. I chuckled to myself while I walked toward the car and jumped in, glancing in the rearview mirror to smooth my hair back and slip on a visor cap and my new sunglasses. Eventually the berg struck the glacier with only a glancing blow, nevertheless breaking off enough of the ice tongue that maps of the region needed redrawing. Wiping his mouth and letting out a rich burp, he snatched up the silver and bundled it roughly into the pocket of his jerkin, glancing around suspiciously as he did so. Now he's hitting the ball squarely, instead of with a glancing blow. She sipped a drink through a pink straw, occasionally glancing up at him. After a long, tense wait, during which he kept glancing nervously at the newcomers, the door was opened by a bleary-eyed young man wearing a disheveled lieutenant's uniform. Alice was nervously patting down her hair, and glancing about. Characters are constantly glancing up from their oysters, or fretting about their steak being overcooked. It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees. Show More Sentences When I landed on the hard ground I murmured at the mean treatment of the sheep, and, glancing my eye upward, saw him looking at me from the roof of the house. When he finally did reach the doorway he stood in it, glancing back at the room of his child, overcome with emotions of pride, fear, hope, happiness and also, loneliness. Gilmour recalls wistfully glancing at the hotel spa pool upon retiring. He kept glancing over at me and then smiling, his expression saccharine. I hate to think what even a glancing blow from a hurricane could do. Arran Bardige smoothes over his T-shirt and baggy jeans, glancing nervously at his phone. It stands towering over the landscape, the sun's rays glancing off the polished superstructure to dance upon the gently rippling waters of the canal below. It dawdles across the sky and sets slowly at a glancing angle. Ian jiggled the key desperately, glancing back at the fire exit. He was struck once in the left shoulder, merely a glancing blow. People in the movie occasionally comment about being filmed, and the audience is given a glancing shot of a mirror, with a reflection of both camera and operator. Everyone was glancing nervously at me and then glancing away just as nervously, like they weren't sure if making eye contact would help or hurt their respective causes. Yet, as she began to walk over to them, she knew she had dug herself into a hole, but she tried to keep her chin up, especially after glancing back to the group. Once out of there, they walked around, just glancing around in the stores, occasionally, Jason would ask Sarah if she wanted anything but she politely declined the offer. She pointed out, glancing over at its flames, burning on the grate. Isaiah reached for a serving platter, glancing down the table at Tara. Mary kept glancing over at her sister with a displeased expression. The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight. Steve Gerrard, unusually, had a below-par night, too, even if it was a lovely delivery to set up Welbeck to make it 2-2 with a glancing header. At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. Show More Sentences At the time, it looked like a glancing blow to the GOP campaign. The vinho verde splashes into the glass like sea foamily glancing onto a pebble. Hence there is a reflection when the glancing angle satisfies Bragg's Law. Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean. Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge. It paid off as Weatherston's endeavour won a corner in 72 minutes and from the set-piece Sheerin's in-swinger was met by Deuchar whose glancing header crept inside the post. Examples from Classical Literature The heavy ax, glancing along his helm, clove off its jaunty white plume, and crashed fair upon the chamfron of his mount. In small groups they chattered gaily, laughing and glancing here and there. She is as pretty a little pagan as ever, said Perior, glancing at Miss Paton. No one watched them read the chits, but Talbot, glancing up from his plate, saw a look on Borwick's face. Then the crisscrossing lights struck metal, glancing off the gleaming body of a descending object. An hour passed, and then glancing at her stane saw that she had fallen asleep. I kept glancing at the faces of the dead cautiously, distrusting my impressionability. Its from stet, said Frank, glancing at the enclosure, which interested him very much. Mrs. Marsden, glancing at him inattentively, vaguely wondered why he didn't take one of the many empty seats and sit down. Mrs. Glynde was anxiously glancing towards Dora, who was nicking the nose of a sportive kitten with the tassel of the tea-cosy. The chief of the Kafirs ordered the scout sternly to be silent, at the same time glancing at orpin. As we mounted to the platform I could not resist glancing into the vaporizer. The Serang had been peering forward, and now and then glancing at the chair. Europe smiled when, glancing at Haiti, she saw this white Soulouque appear. In glancing at the reign of Alexander II., the eye involuntarily runs over the full panorama of tyrannic outrages. Anyone glancing through the scrawly and badly spelled lines could not fail but discover the depths of the conspiracy. Once he varied this procedure by glancing up while still in the middle of a row. Elspeth hung her head and coloured, glancing about as one caught in a trap. What wise little girls, Miss Mackin was glancing around with unhidden admiration. Perhaps Ben is glancing at Shakespeare, who, if accused of plagiary by an angry rival, would merely laugh. Show More Sentences Applehead, glancing often behind him, scowled over the puzzle of that fanlike formation of riders. Then glancing aloft, he understood how it was that the peregrine had been recognised. The next instant the oars fell, and the gig whirled round under the foudroyant's stern and came glancing up toward his own skiff. What most struck me, however, in glancing over the drawers of Mr. Duff, was the character of the ganoid scales of this deposit. The youth glancing at his companion could see by the shadow of a smile that he was making some kind of fun. Craven, more perplexed than ever and glancing sideways at Mistress Mary sitting on her stool and looking down silently at the carpet. As they went up the hill he kept glancing at her sidewise, to see whether she got his point, or how she received it. Ross squirmed in his chair, glancing under his brows at Kate. At the desk a bearded man of middle-age was glancing through some papers. Simply glancing at it, you groveled hand and foot in Belial's grip. Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this strain would help to allure him to church. He bought a New York Times, glancing first of all at the date line. He stood about, restless and uneasy, for a while, glancing at the door, every now and then, hoping she would repent and come to find him. Miss Dyer spoke absently, glancing from the window in growing trouble. He led her in, glancing at her gingham dress, a little puzzled. Before we reached the stable, I felt something tense in her silence, and glancing up I saw that she was crying. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, 'the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Yes, Heathcliff,' he replied, glancing from me up to the windows, which reflected a score of glittering moons, but showed no lights from within. He is like a man glancing across the open pages of a tableful of books. So this is your trysting place, he said glancing about the grove. Show More Sentences Razumov, with the full sense of their unbounded power over all the lives in Russia, with cursory disdain, like two Olympians glancing at a worm. Natasha's unwontedly brilliant eyes, continually glancing at him with a more than cordial look, had reduced him to this condition. He paused, glancing doubtfully at his most unconciliatory companion. After a short conference with his brokers, he proceeded to his hotel, on the way picking up the evening papers and glancing at the head-lines. Alleyne, glancing round for shelter, saw a thick and lofty holly-bush, so hollowed out beneath that no house could have been drier. Then, without glancing at the point or pommel, he handed the long weapon to the doctor. Without glancing toward the junk shop, they walked on to the riverfront. The spectral figurehead, reversed in its position, glancing backwards, seemed to mock the impatient attitude of the warrior. Only papers on the unfortunate man, I see,' said Lightwood, glancing from the description of what was found, to the finder. As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sonya and the young lady visitor. Mute, close, irresponsive to any glancing light, his dress is like himself. Wally gritted disgustedly, glancing over his shoulder at them. She peeped out at me and smiled, but, glancing up at her mother, hid again. A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. I can see the solicitor glancing from him to me in an apprehension of which I did my best to disabuse him by reassuring looks. Pearson had, in spite of himself, been glancing about the room. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility. Nay, ma'am,' said Stephen Blackpool, staunchly protesting against the words that had been used, and instinctively addressing himself to Louisa, after glancing at her face. If it's really the same person,' said I, glancing towards him, 'it was at a place called Salem House where we were together, and he was an excellent fellow. Show More Sentences He, however, blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros. As Magua ended he arose and, uttering the yell of a demon, his polished little axe was seen glancing in the torchlight as he whirled it above his head. Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own hand. When I saw them glancing at me out of the windows, as they went up to their classes, I felt distinguished, and looked more melancholy, and walked slower. It was the face of one glancing indeed from Hyperion to a satyr. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of glancing? Words that rhyme with glancing What is the plural of glancing? What is the adverb for glancing? What is the adjective for glancing? What is the noun for glancing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words glances glanced at glanced glance at glanceable Glance glancingly glancing nervously Glancy gland glandered glanders 8-letter Words Starting With g gl gla glan glanc glanci glancin