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Example sentences for "glanced about"

  • I glanced about helplessly, and sprang to the door of the room to call back Farrell.

  • Her eyes, her words, were so insistent I could not refuse, although as I glanced about I felt convinced there was no danger in this assemblage, not a familiar face meeting mine.

  • I glanced about curiously, shaking the loosened rope from my wrists, my mind instantly reverting to the chance of escape.

  • Dora, remembering the dead snakes, glanced about, but Mr. Newcomb had thoughtfully buried them, not wishing the girls to be needlessly startled.

  • De Artigny had disappeared, although I glanced about in search for him, as Cassion drew aside the tent flap, and peered within.

  • I glanced about in pleased surprise, as the soldier placed fresh fuel on the cheerful fire blazing in the fireplace, and drew closer the drapery over the single window.

  • He glanced about, to assure himself we were alone.

  • So he stopped, glanced about him to fix the hallowed place in his memory, and, obeying the directing finger, set off London-wards.

  • As he glanced about he realized for the first time that he was not sure of his bearings.

  • Feeling sure they were right the boys pulled into the narrow channel, chatting and laughing over their adventure until suddenly Tom stopped rowing and glanced about.

  • The look of undisguised amazement upon Wells's face startled me; and as I glanced about me, wondering whom I might take counsel with, I was astonished to note the horse that Toinette had ridden standing with empty saddle.

  • I glanced about me into the black shadows, startled at his solemn words of warning.

  • As I glanced about me I saw the room was vacant; so I knew the conference thus accidentally overheard must be taking place in an adjoining apartment.

  • I glanced about me apprehensively; surely this must be the same tepee in which Captain Heald and I had met the chiefs!

  • In the excitement I glanced about hurriedly.

  • Finding none, he glanced about, and seized a pair of tongs from beside the grate.

  • From time to time, while they were admiring one of our treasures after another, he glanced about suspiciously.

  • As he glanced about, he saw almost at his feet a dug-out, made from a single poplar log.

  • At last, heavy-eyed and somber, he glanced about him.

  • Meanwhile I glanced about at the people below us.

  • He glanced about as if wondering whether any of his scientific instruments would help him.

  • Slipping the case into his pocket, he glanced about on the floor and something just within the negative room caught his eye.

  • I glanced about at some of the people who were cast for only this one scene, wishing I could read lips, because I was sure many of them talked of matters wholly out of place in this setting.

  • He glanced about reverently at the decaying little edifice.

  • As we advanced through the crowd of curious onlookers, I glanced about at the baffled Mito men, who were attempting to “save the face” of their lord by forming about his norimon in the usual stately cortege.

  • I glanced about to assure myself that the guard was not approaching to seize us.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glanced about" 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:
    alliance with; arrow from; attempt should; automatic writing; each suit; eyes fell; foreign courts; glanced about; glanced around; glanced back; glanced down; glanced round; great honour; intestinal canal; large fortune; manor house; marginal utility; roast them; savoir faire; shall continue; south pole; thinking aloud; water buffalo; what means; when planted; wrote down