Example sentences for: glancing

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

  • If White House aides have to keep glancing over their shoulders to see if a Ken Starr is chasing them with a harpoon, that is no bad thing.

  • As a guest in a Thai household I was drying my hands on a towel when, glancing down, I noticed some writing on it.

  • Anyone who's ever glanced at an issue of Commentary will recognize Frum's targets: the rights explosion, the loss of faith in institutions, the sexual revolution, the rise of the underclass, license, rudeness, etc., etc. (Interesting sign of the times: legalized abortion gets only a glancing mention, even though Roe v.

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

  • (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.


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