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Example sentences for "glancing"

Lexicographically close words:
glamoured; glamours; glance; glanced; glances; gland; glandered; glanders; glands; glandular
  1. Finally, after hastily glancing at a new hand, she flung the cards petulantly on the table, face downward.

  2. Plenty of time," said the victor, glancing at the clock.

  3. Let it all go as suspended animation till we learn the facts, if we ever do," he replied, glancing about with wonder.

  4. He saw now she had been struck with a stone ax, a glancing blow, severe, but not necessarily fatal.

  5. The galley was now within about a hundred and fifty fathoms of us, coming on at a tremendous pace, the water leaping and foaming and glancing about her bows, and her long length still pointed obstinately at us.

  6. Mr. Barton, presently, glancing at his watch; "what in the deuce is keeping that fellow so late?

  7. A smile of amusement lighted Harold Mainwaring's face as, glancing up from the note, his eyes met those of Miss Carleton's with their expression of perplexed inquiry.

  8. Glancing at his watch, the coroner remarked, "It is nearly time to adjourn, but if Mr. Hardy has returned we will first hear what he has to report.

  9. Glancing casually across at his neighbor, he found the dark glasses focused upon himself with such fixity that he responded with a friendly nod, and, making some trivial remark, found Mr. Mannering not at all averse to conversation.

  10. Her lips curled in a mocking smile as she caught sight of the secretary, but glancing from him to his companion, she involuntarily recoiled in terror, yet gazed like one fascinated, unable to remove her eyes from his face.

  11. Then glancing at the signature to the letter, she saw they were identical.

  12. I like books that come out in numbers, as there is a little suspense, and you cannot deprive yourself of all interest by glancing at the last page of the last volume.

  13. With a shrug, and a shake of his head, he knocked the thought into oblivion, and, after glancing over at Freddy on his right, fixed his gaze on the northern horizon.

  14. Then, glancing at Dawson and Farmer, "All the luck in the world, you chaps.

  15. I stooped and picked it up, glancing at the writing on it.

  16. It's something queer," said Trunnell, shaking his great shaggy head and glancing toward the break of the poop.

  17. I drew mine, and glancing around I saw that the carpenter and Johnson were standing near, with their weapons at hand, and half a dozen sailors with them.

  18. Read that," he said, and therewith leaned back in his chair, his dark eyes glancing anxiously about the room.

  19. Muriel, glancing at Lord Barthampton, who was scowling at her across the table.

  20. He was not actually speak ing to Annie-Many-Ponies--or if he was he did not choose to point his remarks by glancing at her.

  21. Applehead, glancing often behind him, scowled over the puzzle of that fanlike formation of riders.

  22. An instant later a breaking wave struck them a glancing blow, and over they went.

  23. When he saw that the women were ready to leave, he beckoned to the waiter, and after glancing at his check, gave him a twenty-dollar bill and told him to keep the change.

  24. He partly raised himself on the couch and thrust his head forward as he uttered the name of his rival, glancing keenly at the novelist meanwhile.

  25. Tom lifted his hat to Mary Hope, turned, and rode back whence he had come, never glancing over his shoulder but nevertheless keenly alert for the sound of voices.

  26. I ain't as popular as all that," she retorted, glancing at Mary Hope, sitting very straight and pretty beside her.

  27. They're comin'," yawned the bartender, glancing at the sleeper on the pool table.

  28. Lance walked up and knocked that young man staggering half across the room, slapped with the flat of his hand another who leered at him, whirled to meet some one who struck him a glancing blow on the ear, and flung him after the first.

  29. And as they went past on the keen gallop--and the horses both in a lather of sweat--the boy impudently shook his fist at me where I was glancing from my window.

  30. Ailsa, glancing again at his profile, saw nothing now in it resembling Berkley; and, as he made no response, thought him uninterested.

  31. I was caught," she said calmly, steadying herself by the arm he offered and glancing down at the peril below.

  32. Yes," motioned Ailsa with her lips, glancing cautiously at Letty.

  33. So she read to him in a low, soothing voice, glancing from time to time at the bandaged face.

  34. And, glancing back over her shoulder, caught her breath quickly.

  35. Glancing around and determining to find out a few facts as soon as possible, he rode up to the low door and pounded upon it with the butt of his Colt.

  36. They was purty well heeled," suggested Tex, glancing at a bunch of repeating Winchesters of late model which lay stacked in a corner.

  37. Tossing off the liquor and glancing at his howling friends, he shrugged his shoulders and strode out by the rear door, slamming it after him.

  38. Asked Tex, glancing at the bulging pockets of Hopalong's chaps.

  39. This courtesy," glancing at the restored revolver, "might have cost you dearly.

  40. Glancing again at the point where Pie had disappeared, he stuffed his sombrero under a strap on his saddle and slowly rode toward the lake.

  41. He's a good kid," replied Buck, glancing to where Red and Hopalong were quarreling as to who had eaten the most pie in a contest held some years before.

  42. Hopalong interrupted the conversation by driving up another calf, and Buck, glancing at his watch, declared the contest at an end.

  43. I only wonder if Sophie is going to try and polish it," answered Emily, glancing at her friend, who stood a little apart, watching the rise and fall of the axe as intently as if her fate depended on it.

  44. Her call was unanswered, and glancing back, she saw the candle placed on the ground, but no Anderl.

  45. Van will make a fool of himself, and ruin everything," sighed Polly, glancing at the ring on her finger.

  46. From the fact that he was constantly turning affrighted eyes behind them, and glancing suspiciously into every nook and corner that they passed, she guessed that the prince's punishment might be both speedy and terrible were he caught.

  47. As she passed the body of the Negro, her foot touched some obstacle at her side, and glancing down she saw the spear with which Otobu had been supposed to hold the prisoners.

  48. The girl, too, just dipped her little beak in the goblet, glancing shyly first at me and then at the students; but the oftener she looked at us the bolder she grew.

  49. Nay, in glancing over the whole, you might have thought the parchment was nothing but a piece of thickly veined marble, or a stone sprinkled over with lichens.

  50. After that, I noticed as often as I turned away that they put their heads together and talked eagerly, glancing askance toward me from time to time.

  51. My theory always has been that the man Gustafson, who was shot down in the street, was struck by a glancing shot from some of the citizen's rifles, as they were out blazing away at this time.

  52. Plain speakin's good med'cine," he said, glancing coldly over his shoulder.

  53. He stood, glancing thoughtfully down at the village for some moments.

  54. His horse was nigh done," he went on, glancing at the dejected creature Jim was leading.

  55. Glancing down at her, he leaned forward and spoke earnestly.

  56. Let's have a look," he added, crossing to Eve's side and glancing keenly at her wound.

  57. He seized upon them greedily, glancing queerly at her as he pocketed them.

  58. She was obliged to pass the room where Helen lay, and glancing in at the window when the curtain fluttered, she could see her pale, sad-looking face, and she did not like to look again.

  59. I exclaimed, glancing ruefully at my trousers.

  60. Then prepare yourself for a disappointment, my friend," I advised, glancing at the clock.

  61. He doesn't look it," I remarked, glancing across the room with some interest.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glancing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    contingent; glancing; grazing; lateral; leeward; meeting; passing; rubbing; side; sidelong; sideward; sideways; tangential; touching; weather; windward


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    glancing over; glancing round