Example sentences for: glancing

How can you use “glancing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Oddly, both the Times and the Globe make only glancing mention of a separate instance in which McCain complained to the FCC that it was applying too strict a standard of review to a deal involving Ameritech, whose chief was raising money for McCain.

  • During the brief Steve Forbes epoch of the Republican primary season, the idea of a "value-added tax" received glancing attention.

  • They try to act as if they're right but suggest by their behavior that they might well be wrong--akin to a person who turns one way at an intersection and then keeps glancing anxiously at the rearview mirror.

  • Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.

  • "You look as hot as that pie, darlin'," he said, glancing at the cleavage of her firm, young breasts, while her breath quickened with expectation.


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