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Example sentences for "backward glance"

  • And with the words she passed with finality out of her mother's room, and went away upstairs without a backward glance.

  • And so, without further parley, he left her, striding away in his square, purposeful fashion without a backward glance.

  • He was gone with the words, striding away down the street without a backward glance.

  • I do not think that any one reading right on would name the perpetrator of the theft, and yet when we take a backward glance we find an account of a dinner-party about the seventieth page which gives the clue.

  • His purpose was to provide hints which, when contemplated with what he called a backward glance, should appear luminous at the end of the story.

  • It may be traced now, but without the ‘backward glance’ it would not have been easy to trace it.

  • I cast a backward glance, and there upon the opposite side I saw Leroux standing.

  • He went without a backward glance; but I saw his throat heave, and I knew what the parting meant to him.

  • Without another word, or a backward glance, he rode away; the galloping hoofs of his mount muffled in the damp spring earth.

  • Tossing a coin on the floor as payment for the supper Bill turned sharply and went out without even a backward glance.

  • A backward glance as he left the wagon apprised him that the dangers of scouting were to be taken thankfully.

  • Breakfast was eaten by candle light and when the eastern sky faded into a silver gray Skinny Thompson vaulted into the saddle and loped eastward without a backward glance.

  • Calling her cub, she shambled off through the bushes, the youngster casting many a backward glance at this little, but seemingly very dangerous creature.

  • Without a backward glance he crossed the pasture and vanished over the ridge, the white string trailing behind, the only link remaining between him and the life of the settlements.

  • Leaves of Grass including Sands at Seventy, Good-Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Traveled Roads.

  • Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads.

  • Then, gripping the reins with a firmness that no present activity of the animal called for, he left Green River's only noteworthy view without a backward glance, and turned his horse into the road through the woods.

  • She made both her delicately shaded eyebrows an even splotchy black, admired the result, then suddenly rubbed it off, turned away from the mirror without a backward glance, and ran down into the hall.

  • The girl vanished, gratefully, without a backward glance at the disorderly room.

  • Then, after a backward glance, fell into a quick walk that brought him past the Brill House and to Schroeder's drug store corner.

  • She rolled it up in a tight bundle and whisked off with it without a backward glance at Josie or at Hahn.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backward glance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual possession; backward glance; better plan; bibulous paper; body length; could reach; ecclesiastical architecture; evil will; great towns; had spoken; living nature; medical officers; minutes before; none more; often omitted; shall build; superior being; three thousand; unto king; voice culture; what belongs; yellow ground